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Author of "A Permanent Republic Cannot he Established on Des 
potic Family Laws." "Spiritualism is the Basis of a 
Scientific Religion and Government," and 
other Works. 



The Law God is the true Natural God, that agrees with the natur- 
al man, and with all the material, spiritual, mental, moral and 
social sciences. 

The Gods of revelations or words, are made by man, and. are the 
enemies of the natural man and the natural God; and of all the 
material, spiritual, mental, moral and social sciences. 



PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, 

527 Milwaukee Street, Milwaukee, Wis., 
August, 1885. 



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Author of "A Peruiane}it Republic Cannot be Established on Des- 
potic Family Laws." "Spiritualism is the Basis of a 
Scientific Religion and Government," and 
other Works. 



The Law G*od is the true Natural God, that agrees with the natur- 
al man, and with all the material, spiritual, mental, moral and 

.social sciences. 

The Gods of revelations or words, are made by man, and are the 
enemies of the natural man and the natural God; and of all the 
material, spiritual, mental, moral and social sciences. 



PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, 

527 Milwaukee Street, Milwaukee, Wis. 

August, 1885. 



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This volume is most respectfully dedicated to 
those persons who will cordially unite and work to- 
gether to establish a just government and the true 
religion by the scientific methods of Keason, Exper- 
ience, Experiments and Observations. For these 
have proved to be the way to knowledge and wisdom, 
that make peace and good will among the people of 
the earth. 



Entered according to act of Congress, 1885, ]jy H. B. Brown, M. D. 
in the office of tlie Librarian of Congress, Washington D. 0. 



PREFACE. 

This Compendium is calculated to give but little 
more than a summary of the texts that constitute the 
foundation principles of the science of association, 
religion and government. Wherever you have a re- 
ligion that the professors claim was made by God, 
there must be a government made by the same Grod 
to match it ; to make harmony. The only trouble 
among the people where they have this union of 
church and state is : Who shall be their rulers and 
priests. This part the people decide, if their gods 
have done all the rest. If you have a government 
made by man, as this United States government was, 
you must have a rehgion made by man, on humani- 
tarian principles, to be in harmony with it. To 
assist people in making this religion I put forth this 
humble volume, hoping it will draw attention to this 
most important subject; 



INTEODUCTION. 

The question may be properly asked : Why do 
you propose to establish a new religion? Because 
there is a large class of learned, thoughtful people 
who have outgrown all the old religions, believe them 
false in pretended facts, unjust and immoral in prin- 
ciple, and wholly unfit to guide and give comfort to 
good, intelligent, independent thinking people. 

It is to give comfort and joy to this large class of 
people, which is at present growing rapidly in all en- 
lightened countries. This religion is especially cal- 
culated to reach and give the same consolations that 
the old religions give to the ignorant and superstitious. 
Its principles have arisen among the most enlightened 
people of this enlightened age, andhave come to stay ; 
its intelligent advocates have made many important 
discoveries, that agree with the demonstrated know- 
ledge of the material sciences, and are bound together 
in a harmonious whole, that will draw all the intelli- 
gent people into the bands of wisdom and love. 
Spiritualism is a science governed by the law that 
governs spirits. It is not a set of miracles of God, 
made under the influence of love or hate, or when God 
is angry or pleased. 

The God of Science abides by law. He performs 
all his works under the control of law, or is guided by 
it, and proves his existence by the laws of nature and 
spirit. 

The gods of all other religions are man-made, 
lawless despots. The only proof that is presented of 
their existence, is the assertion that they can andhave 
made miracles in violation of the laws of nature and 
spirit. 



The greatest study of the miracle or word god 
religionists is to get faith, or to increase it in their 
feelings. 

The greatest study of the scientific religionists 
is to get knowledge and wisdom. 

We often hear of people loving not wisely but too 
well and that they had too much love and faith, 
but never that they had too much knowledge and 
wisdom. 

The faith religionists believe, that the best and 
most innocent of animals, birds and men, must be 
sacrificed to save the worst of mankind. 

The scientific religionists believe that it is 
necessary to sacrifice the worst of beasts, birds and 
man to save the best of mankind, to bring about the 
millenium that is so much desired by the people of 
earth. They do not think that such a government 
will be established by the worst of men. 

The Christian religion is a summary of all the 
ancient religions. It contains the principles of all 
their schemes of salvation and their various plans 
of worship, to attract the attention of the people^ 
They all begin alike by commands. People must be- 
lieve, and they can then cure the sick, raise the dead 
and be saved from all misery here and hereafter. 
They must have faith and they can remove mountains 
by a wish. They must love their neighbors as they 
do themselves, and they vv^ill do all duties of life cor- 
rectly and justly, no matter how unjust their self-love 
may be. 

The scientific religion commenced about six hun- 
dred years ago, by discoveries in some of the sciences. 
They were not considered a religion at the time, only by 
Christian priests ; but little by little discoveries were 
made. Other sciences, that gave knowledge to the 
people, were discovered, until the science of spiritual- 
ism was established. Then it became known that 
all these sciences of knowledge formed the basis of 
a new^ religion, that was to give joy to all the people of 
earth. Their only worship is their devotion to get 
knowledge and wisdom, and learn from them what is 
best for man to do to avoid pain and misery. 



The ancient religions and Christian gods made 
matter, and then made the heavens and earth, animals 
and man out of it. Then they made spirits and 
devils and angels out of it, and all this was done by 
a word — by their god of words. Ministers and priests 
have tried to imitate their gods and make all the food 
and clothing and supply all the wants of mankind by 
words. The words were plenty but the people starved 
for the want of food, and died for the necessaries of 
life. Their faith, their belief, their prayers of priests 
and people did not stop the famine or stay the pest- 
ilence. This shows that words will not produce bread, 
nor cure diseases, and people must look to other 
means to obtain the needs of life on earth. 

Man was not made to govern the laws of nature 
and spirit, but these laws were made to govern man. 
They are his God and they must be his guide. If he 
would have his wants supplied, man may violate the 
laws of health and bring on disease. He may violate 
the laws of peace and bring on war. He may violate the 
laws that produce good, strong, healthy children, and 
bring forth weak and sickly ones, who are deformed 
in body and mind. He may make unjust and un- 
equal laws and a government to enforce them, causing 
misery, wrongs, conflicts, wounds and death. But 
the laws of nature and spirit continue just the same. 
He may make machinery that will chain the light- 
ning, but he cannot destroy the law which governs 
lightning. It is compliance with nature's god that 
gives peace, plenty, health and happiness ; not faith, 
not belief, not prayer. The god of nature does not 
heed such things. But the spirits do, and by them 
many wonderful things are done, that preachers and 
priests proclaim as the works of their gods, and the 
ignorant and superstitious believe them, and are pun- 
ished by pain and by want. 

This makes the god of nature a moral ruler, 
guided by the laws of justice, to govern i^jankind. 
If persons obey the laws of health and peace they 
have them. If they say they do not know what 
these laws are, the god of nature is not to blame for 
that. He has given you intellect and time enough to 
e am them. But you have employed your time 



and talent in useless prayers, instead of learning the 
truth. You preferred ignorance to knowledge, and 
you must sufi'er until you prefer knowledge to ignor- 
ance. Guided by these principles, the scientists have 
put forth the best system of morals ever adopted by 
mankind, and made the best governments that have 
ever been established on earth. Their moral prin- 
ciples are the parliamentary laws and rules. 

Protestanism is a mixed religion, partly Pagan 
and Christian, and partly scientific, jusc calculated to 
be the medium for people to take, when leaving the 
faith and sacrificial religions to" adopt the scientific. 
It proclaims the right of private judgment. This 
mixes a little scientific thought with its ancient 
superstition and ignorance. When the Christians had 
control, they used the hangman's rope and fiery 
faggot to prevent free discussion. For more than 
a hundred years the infidels a.nd scientists have had 
about as much to do in shaping the laws, morals and 
governments of Protestant countries as Christians 
have. During this time the Protestant countries 
have gained all their glory, and have dominated the 
world. Their moral principles have reached all 
nations, and changed for the better the thoughts and 
habits of the people. Wherever scientific Protestants 
go, there are the best and most enlightened people of 
•the earth. 

How are we expected to worship so as to be satis- 
fied with faith and belief ? Just as the Christians and 
other sacrificial religionists do : Count our beads. 
Bow to our malier. Kneel to our God. Eead his holy 
books. Depend on the priests to save our souls. 
Pray to God, to Christ, to the Holy Ghost, to the Virgin 
Mary the mother of God. Do penance and torture 
the body by priestly orders, to save the soul. Sacrifice 
the best of animals and man, to save the worst. 
Eepent and ask Godinthemost piteous supj^lications 
to forgive them their sins of commission and omis- 
sion. Wrestle and agonize with their God, to give 
them the blessings they ask for. Do anything but 
get knowledge and wisdom, for these destroy such 
faith and belief. 



How shall we worship to be satisfied with know- 
ledge and wisdom ? Our devotions must be of the 
same kind that scientists apply when they study their 
special sciences — of thoughtful study and work. We 
must devote ourselves to obtaining knowledge and 
using it wisely. Be as devout and earnest, as perse- 
vering, peaceful, and determined to find the truth and 
do right as the best of scientists. Pray to our spirit 
friends and have them answer our prayers to the best 
of their ability, and bring us into harmony with the 
spirits of heaven and the deity that presides over the 
universe of matter and spirit, decks the heavens with 
his stars, keeps the sun in its station, the planets in 
their orbits, and gives the greatest joy to those people 
who get the most knowledge of his laws and live 
most wisely in harmony with them. This is the kind 
of devotion, work and worship, that will satisfy every 
honest, intelligent person, that the best religion in the 
world must be based on spiritual knowledge and 
wisdom. 

What is the real importance and value of Inspira- 
tion as a religious guide ? No more important ques- 
tion can be asked in the religious world, because 
Christianity and all the ancient religions declare in- 
spiration as the only reliable guide for people, and 
claim it to be better than reason, better than know- 
ledge, better than wisdom, better than all these com-. 
bined. The scientific religionists declare just the op- 
posite, that the intellect is the only safe guide for 
people. They wish to heap up knowledge upon 
knowledge, wisdom upon wisdom, reason upon reason, 
and make up their judgments from these, to decide 
what is right and just. 

The question is, shall we make our intellect sub- 
servient to reason or to inspiration ? Shall we throw 
reason aside as the Christians did during the hund- 
dreds of years they had control of the governments, or 
shall we throw inspiration aside, as is done to-day 
among the most enlightened people of earth ? Here 
is where the conflict has been raging for more than 
three hundred years, and the ground on which the 
battle is being fought to-day. Shall we throw aside 



intellect and take to inspiration, or throw aside in- 
spiration to be guided by intelleci; ? 

To determine this matter, let us inquire into the 
sources of inspiration. These are impressions, dreams, 
intuition, clairvoyance, clairaudience, psychology, 
psychometry, magnetism, communications from 
spirits and from visions of various kinds. All these, 
that are claimed to be inspired by God, are asserted 
to be infallible truth, and the only guide to make 
peace and good will among the people, and insure 
them a heavenly home among the blest. Now let us 
inquire into the sources of knowledge and wisdom. 
They are obtained by experience, experiments and 
observations, and finally formulating the facts into 
sciences. The most important of these is the science 
-of free speech, which the god of words never hinted 
at, never thought of, although he is made of words 
and speeches. Wherever this science is complied 
with, there is intelligence and peace among the 
people. All the other sciences are made upon its 
principles of industry, observations and determina- 
tion to know the truth and abide by it ; to know what 
is right and do it. It has taken ages of hard work 
and close reasoning to obtain the present knowledge 
and wisdom, and make the religion of science as it 
now is. No pains have been spared to make it true 
and just to all people. 

When ^e turn to the inspirations from the gods, 
we find them saying : "in six days God made the 
heavens and earth and ail that in them is. The 
earth was flat, sun, moon and stars went round it," 
and Christians killed astronomers, because they proved 
that all their astronomical statements from Genesis 
to revelations are falsehoods. 

Why did the Christians wish to destroy the 
geologists? Simply because they proved that all 
the statements of their inspired writers, about 
the making of the crust of the earth and its animals, 
its vegetables and its man, were false. 

Why did the Christians kill chemists ? Simply 
because, they proved that, all the inspired chemical 
statements of their bible were falsehoods. There 



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were more than the four elements of matter — earth, 
air, fire and water. 

Why have all religious people killed mediums for 
spirit control? Simply because they proved there 
was no hell, and that heaven was as natural a place 
for spirits as earth was for their bodies, and that the 
whole of the inspirations of their bible leads to false- 
hoods and brutality. 

Why have all the most religious people such a 
deadly hatred of quiet, independent free-thinkers, and 
even kill them now in the most barbarous portions of 
catholic and protestant countries ? It is simply be- 
cause they expose the falsehoods of their bible inspira- 
tions and the lies of their priests, and tell the truth. 

Why have the Christians and Protestants made a 
church militant, or fighting church ? Simply because 
they WL«h to uphold falsehood, lies, brutality and in- 
justice. There is no other way to uphold the barbar- 
ities that are required to maintain such religions, and 
the priests and most intelligent people learned this 
ages ago, when they founded their religions upon the 
falsehoods believed to be true by the ignorant and 
superstitious. 

Now let us call together the most intelligent of 
all these scientists, free-thinkers, mediums, spiritual- 
ists and all others that the churches have rejected, 
and see if we cannot find among them the stone of 
truth 'd.-n.^ justice^ that will be exactly fitted to become 
the chief head of the corner of the new religious 
edifice. Persons who wish to establish the religion of 
truth and justice need no church militant, but a fair 
hearing, such as parliamentary law affords, and an in- 
telligent people who seek to be just and true. 

From these statements the reader will note the 
great necessity of a new religion that will be in 
harmony with the government and the knowledge of 
the people of this age, have all the humanitarian 
principles that possess the best of people, and in 
every way teach them the importance of being guided 
by wisdom in declaring their principles, and making 
associations, and working to benefit mankind. 



Chapter I. 
THE SCIENCE OF EKEE SPEECH. 

This is parliamentary law and the moral basis of 
the scientific religion. These laws are established 
upon the moral principles of the equal rights of all 
people in Religion, Associations, Society and Govern- 
ments. They secure to every individual, in legislative 
bodies the same rights ; and by principle they secure 
to every individual in the nation the same rights. 
They are the best system of laws ever made by man, 
or by the God believed in by man, to civilize and 
enlighten the people of any society or nation. 

For hundreds of years men have been engaged 
in legislative bodies in learning what rules and laws 
they should be guided by, to enable each one of 
them to have the just rights, in the work that it is 
their duty, or wish to do. They have made experi- 
ment after experiment, and trial after trial, to 
determine the rules and laws to secure every 
member of a legislative body his just rights, 
in manner, action and speech. In this they have 
set an example for all people to follow in the 
common affairs of life, if they wish to end civil strife 
and do justly by all persons of all nations. They 
teach practical morality, not a theoretical or vision- 
ary one. Their demand is that people shall be civil, 
polite and just in their manners toward each other. 

They repudiate the idea, that man should be a 
law unto himself, and do by others as they would have 
others do by them. The law of order;; can not be 
made in that way, nor equal rights to free speech. 
But when a question of right arises in legislatures 



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and a person is called to order, the point of order is 
stated. Then the presiding officer makes a decision. 
If that is not satisfactory, an appeal is taken to the 
members of the house to determine what is right law 
on the subject. There is no question about their lov- 
ing their neighbor as themselves, or wether they love 
anybody, or hate anybody. The only question is. 
what is the just law? and^majority decides the point 
of order, and after a great many decisions makes the 
law. Then the law becomes the guide ; not love, 
not feeling, not conscience, not selfish love, or 
unselfish love; but the law of agreement, and so bind- 
ing is this law, that it governs the unruly tongues 
of the legislators, and if the same equal rights laws 
are made to guide all adult people, they will make 
similar laws, that will not only govern their tongues, 
but all their actions, and make the same order in 
general society, that we have now in legislative 
bodies. 

The making of these laws, is one of the most won- 
derful works of man that is recorded in history. _ It 
was commenced in the last centuries of the Christian 
dark ages, by the great and wealthy men of England ; 
getting a charter from their king and forming a par- 
liament to secure equal rights by law to the nobles of 
that country. This ruling class kept united in all 
the vicissitudes of the dark and middle ages of priestly 
brutality. Their head men were often killed by the 
order of kings or queens. The common people some- 
times rebelled, and swept king and parliament out of 
existence for a time. But the great men held to their 
charter and their rights, and finally triumphed over 
kingcraft and priestcraft, ignorance and super- 
stition and proved that the best laws ever made for 
man, w^here made by man. This occured less than 
two hundred years ago. Wherever Englishmen go 
they carry with them this basic principle of just law, 
equal rights, and wherever they plant a colony they 
plant the equal rights of man, in place of the equal 
rights of nobles ; and these principles soon ripen into 
the principle of the equal rights of all its citizens and 
the nations, made from such colonies declare that "the 
just powers of the government are derived from the 



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consent of the governed", and the sentiments of equal 
rights become the principles of the people and govern- 
ments ; and all are derived from the parliamentary 
laws that were established by the ruling classes of 
England under the most oppressive circumstances 
that ever surrounded a people. 

No other nation ever planted such colonies and be- 
came the mother of such nations of enlightened people, 
and no other nation ever made such a just system of 
laws for its citizens to carn^ to their colonies, and to 
other nations and people. Look at the Spanish colon- 
ies, and nations made from them. The French colon- 
ies, the colonies made by the Germans, Russians and 
Italians, look the world over, ancient and modern 
and find if you can, any nation that has equaled 
the English, in making just governments and an 
enlightened people. 

As they have excelled all other nations in giving 
just law and knowledge to their people, the ques- 
tion is, how did they do it? What made them do it? 
Because they had better principles back of their 
laws, than any other nation, and consequently better 
laws, and as the basis of their laws was just, all the 
people have to do, is to follow out the principles and 
the people will be filled with joy and the nations will 
be at peace. 

Can reformers find iu all the world, among all 
the people better basic-principles to make peace on 
earth and good will among the people, than the par- 
liamentary laws and principles, to guide them ? A 
few of these principles were adopted hundreds of 
years ago, and laws made consistent with them and 
the people that adopted most of them, are the most en- 
lightened and have the best laws, and the people who 
refuse to adopt any of them are the most cruel, bar- 
barous, ignorant and superstitious of people in this 
world. These are the practical results of the two sys- 
tems and give an unmistakable lesson to guide all, 
what course to persue, a true religion, a just govern- 
ment and peace among the people of the earth. 



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Chapter II. 

ASSOCIATION. 

The great question before the American people 
at this time, is, how shall they associate, to be just 
to aU people ? The answer is, if there is a just gOTexn- 
ment in the world, adopt its laws and principles, if 
there is not, take the just laws and principles that 
exist in all governments and add to them all the just 
ones, that can be conceived by the persons forming the 
governments and accociations. Every family is a 
little association under a general government. ' Unite 
a number of families and you have a large association. 
Now, shall all these associations from the family to 
the state and nation, have the same laws and prin- 
eiples of government ? If they agree, there will be 
peace and harmony; if not, there will be a constant 
conflict, it may beVar. 

1. They must agree to reason together upon the 
principles of scientific speech, in all their discussions 
and meetings. This will give all persons the same 
rights of speech in all the governments from the 
family to the state and nation. And so far there is 
now a general harmonious union. 

2. The best and most intelligent of husbands 
and wives agree that they shall have equal rights to 
life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness. 
This is simply justice, and the declared principles of 
this government. Yet there is no law of any state 
or nation that is in accord with this agreement. Here 
you have a disagreement between the best family 
laws tuat the best of men and women make, and the 
best laws and institutions that best of governments 
have been willing to make. Notwithstanding it is 
just, and in agreement with the declared rights of the 
people, the governments prefer to adopt the laws and 
bickerings of the worst of husbands and wives, to 
doing justice, and as they agreed to do when conten- 
ding for hberty and right. 

3. The wages working people have associated to- 
gether, to have fair living wages for fair work. Shall 
they have it ? Yes, says every fair-minded man, yet 



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there is not a law of any state or nation in the world 
that will force men to pay it, or even oblige them to 
make an investigation to determine what is fair pay 
for working people. Here is a perfectly just demand 
from every humane person and all wages working 
people, that laws be passed to investigate and deter- 
mine what is fair living wages that should be paid to 
working people, for fair work, and the state and 
nation having- determined what such wages are, they 
should pass laws that contracts below such prices 
shall be null and void. This will bring harmony among 
all the people of these associations who love justice, 
and the state and national laws, and make, in this 
matter, laws that are in harmony with the just claims 
of these associations, and with the profession of the 
lawmakers. 

4. Working people have associated together to 
ask to have the hours of labor so regulated that all 
necessary work shall be done, and not so much more, 
as to produce a surplus and cause the dismissal of the 
workers. Ten hours have been tried, and too much 
is produced, now the demand is that Eight hours 
shall be tried to determine whether so many hours will 
produce all needed supplies. This law is resisted with 
venom, by the great majority of employers and exe- 
cutive officers of the state and national governments. 
The law of the United States that Eight hours shall 
be a days work, was not allowed to working people, 
until after years of agitation ; the republican officers 
who have been in power for a number of years 
long refused to enforce these laws, and the democra- 
tic president who vetoed a bill while governor of New 
York, that reduced the hours of labor from sixteen 
hours per day to twelve for car drivers in New York 
City, will hardly be in favor of making the officers 
obey the law, or trying the experiment, until working 
people, and their friends, unite and demand it at the 
Ballot Box. Here was an outrageous violation of 
laws, and public opinions, by the officers of the 
governments, and the animus of the two great parties, 
that are contending for supremacy in the government, 
is, that they hate the working people and all laws that 
favor them, and will do all thev can to have them 



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paid starvation wages, or refuse to pay them any- 
thing, until the workers are made insane or partly so, 
by hard work, poor fare, and insults and inhuman 
treatment. Then when these poor demented- 
working people rise in mobs and riots, these 
officers without looking at the cause, can order the 
soldiers to shoot them down on the spot, and men, 
women and children are killed and these officers are 
paid great wages for doing it, and more money is ex- 
pended in doing this, than would be required, to 
settle the whole affair quietly, peacefully and justly. 
But the tax payers have to foot the bills, and the 
officers are delighted with their large pay and bloody 
work against insane mobocrats. 

When Gov. Kusk of Wisconsin was notified thac 
it was necessary for him to send a military force to 
put down a mob of rail road working men that were 
violating the rights of the citizens, he sent to learn 
the cause of the riots and found it to be, the men had 
not been paid their dues, and at once, he ordered 
them to be supplied with provisions that they were 
made partly insane by not receiving them, and they be- 
came quiet, and being assured that justice should be 
done to them there was no occassion for soldiers to 
shoot them, ana the people were not taxed to pay a 
military force, to suppress riotous people. 

Now let us turn to the works of the governors of 
Pennsylvania and Ohio wiio have had frequent occa- 
sion to put down the riotous proceedings of working 
people, when they have been made almost, or quite 
insane, by want of pay, to enable them to get a com- 
fortable living, sometimes because employers would 
not pay them what they had agreed to, at other times, 
from starvation wages. But whatever the cause, 
the governors were bound to punish them, order 
soldiers to shoot them if necessary, to 
make them submit to be starved peace- 
fully, or worked and starred to death, amidst 
plenty and to spare. The question to tax payers and 
all peace, loving citizens is : Will you join the work- 
ing men's party as much as Gov. Kusk has, and have 
peace, or join those who are opposed to working people 
having their just dues, and have taxations, starva- 



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tion and mobs as the governors of Pennsylvania and 
Ohio have. If you refuse to deal justly with the work- 
ing people now, you will be taxed heavily for your 
injustice and your children and children's children 
will raise monuments in honor of the working people 
you starved and shot. The same as John Brown is 
now honored because he gave his life to free the 
slaves. 

5. Marriages and divorces shall be civil con- 
tracts and their settlements, made upon the scientific 
principles that produce the best children and make 
the most harmonious, happy and healthy people. 

The God of nature made the laws of attraction 
and repulsion in the marriage relation, and it is the 
dnty of man to make laws that are in harmony with 
them. If they are not, there will be constant conflict, 
as is now seen in most of the families that the priests 
say God has joined together, and let no man put 
asunder. If God has done that, he has united people 
to produce miserable children, and live in inharmoni- 
ous, unhappy and unhealthy conditions. There is no 
proof that any such God exists, except such as priests 
have made and superstitious and deluded people wor- 
ship. We ask the governments of the state and nation 
to pass laws, that are in harmony with the God of na- 
ture, that makes all the natural children, and agrees 
with the natural man and woman. When a Mrs. Clark 
uttered the sentiment in the Wisconsin State Agri- 
cultural Association at the meeting held at Madison 
in the spring of 1885 : **That the best stock raised 
on the farm were the children", she told a great 
truth and now what is wanted, is for people to have 
the right, by law, to so unite that they can raise the 
very best of this best stock, and this must be, before 
the governments are in harmony with the God of 
nature, and with the most thoughtful people in the 
world. 

(). Only such persons should be admitted to the 
association as members, who are in entire sympathy 
with its objects and aims, and profess a willingness to 
do the work required of them, to become useful to 
the association, and it may be they should not become 
members until they had proved their usefulness by 



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years of work in the association. One of the greatest 
difficulties in forming a just association that contains 
a number of families is to get suitable, faithful mem- 
bers who will work together harmoniously and 
profitably ; but the greatest of all difficulties, is that 
there are no laws of the states or nation, except par- 
liamentary laws, that will allow people to do right by 
each other in all the affairs of life, and such laws can 
not be made until men and women have equal rights 
by law. Now, w^hile persons are allowed to receive 
great incomes that are not taxed extra, that is by a 
graduated income tax, while individuals and corpora- 
tions can hold large tracts of land, therefore such 
great landed estates and incomes should be taxed out 
of existence. 

And if the land is not wanted for settlement by 
individuals to belong to the government or state, be- 
cause justice cannot be done to individuals w^hile any 
one of these laws exist and are enforced. They divert 
the earnings of the working people from their just uses, 
to the wealthy, who spend them in indolence and de- 
bauchery ; or in instigating riots and war, to prevent 
the people from enjoying the fruits of their labor, and 
to establish despotisms where their wealth will allow 
them to rule with despotic sway. It is a great curse 
to the rich and poor ; in civihzed society, it makes the 
rich forget that a God of justice rules, and makes the 
poor curse the God that made them, and the people 
who instituted the laws that curse them. These are the 
teachings of history. 

Many more laws might be cited to show that a 
just association can not be formed, and have it legal, 
and it is the duty of people to make their associations, 
upon just principles whether lawful or unlawful, and 
live as near to the just principles as the law and pub- 
lic opinion will allow, and try to induce the people to 
make the laws of justice that will make it legal to do 
right. There are three laws that contain the just 
general principles to guide people in making the laws 
of justice : 

1. We adopt the science of free speech. This 
gives equal rights to all members in meetings for the 
discussion and consideration of all subjects. 



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'J. We adopt tlio scientific principles oi" a just 
government. These give all (citizens tlie same rights 
to life, liherty, property and the pursuit of happiness. 

I>. We adopt as the first and most important law 
under these general principles, that wages-working 
persons shall have just compensation for thei-r lahor, 
and this shall he determined hy the cost of living. 
Always taking into consideration that these laborers 
must be paid more than just sufficient for their sup- 
port, to enable the economical to lay up livings for a 
time of sickness, or when out of work. All history 
proves that the destruction of the best governments 
have been caused by injustice to the poor laborers, 
making slaves of them l)y law, or by starvation wages. 
Then the rulers have gone to fighting, to control the 
spoils of office and to rule or ruin the governments. 
If these three piinciples are made into the laws of the 
land, there can hardly be any oppression that the 
people would not soon check. If people have free 
speech, and equal rights, and the working people can 
not be oppressed in their wages, it will make an inde- 
pendent people, who will right all the wrongs of asso- 
ciations and governments very soon. 

The first great object in making an association 
based upon scientific principles, is to show people that 
they can live better, healthier and happier in that 
way, than by any other system. The second great 
object is to set before all people, an example to guide 
in establishing their scientific religions and political 
governments, that are best fitted to nature, the 
natural earth, the natural man, and the natural God. 

The great difficulty, in forming associations, has 
been, that working people were treated as infants, not 
to be trusted with their own earnings, but require 
guardians. The Shakers take this view in practice 
in their associations. The Oneida communists had 
the same ideas in a less degree. The American 
socialists practiced on the same plan. A scientific 
association must be formed upon the theory that 
every adult man or woman who is admitted as a part- 
ner in the association, is capable of managing their 
earnings and property and there should be a settle- 
ment every year, (at least one), and every partner 



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should receive their share of the net profits of the 
association, to do as they please with it.' We will 
suppose farming to be the business of the association. 
The first thing to be done is to get the funds to pay 
for the land, then buy and stock it, so as to begin its 
cultivation, when the people can be :ound that can 
live and work together profitably. The land is our 
church, the workers of it are the worshipers ana the 
law God that produces the growth of the vegetables 
and animals, guides them to do the best work, that 
will produce the best of earthly products, to make 
man happy and make harmony and peace among the 
people and will cause people to live in agreement with 
their God; and his natural law will be their natural 
law, and his products shall be theirs, and his sioirits 
shall be the peoples, spirits and these angels ot God 
and spirits of mankind shall be the advisers of these 
working people in all the affairs of life, and then it 
will be known that the God that makes the best 
angels of heaven, makes the best products of earth, 
and he who makes the laws for the spirits of heaven, 
makes the laws for the people of earth, and all are 
under one set of divine laws and the same virtues that 
save people on earth will save them in heaven, and 
the same justice that gives people their rights on 
earth, will give them their rights in heaven, and the 
same love that will make a mother give up her life for 
her child on earth, will make her devote her life in 
heaven to comfort and shield her child from harm. 

There is no hope that any persons can be good 
associationists, unless they adopt the principle that 
the best teachers are the best and most in- 
telligent workers, doing the most important work to 
support the people and make them most comfortable. 
Word worshipers who take the highest positions in the 
past religions, will take the lowest in this, because 
they have been more often false and frauds, than just 
and true. People are wanted that are willing to go 
into partnership with the land they cultivate and 
give the land a fair part of the products to keep it in 
good condition and to pay the taxes on it, and make 
such improvements as will cause it to be in better heart 
every year it is under their care, and if there is a 



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surplus above all the necessities of the land and stock, 
the surplus should be used to buy more land to en- 
large the association or to make new associations, to 
be conducted on the best plans that can be devised 
by knowledge, experience and wisdom. 

When we take into consideration the strength, 
duties and obhgations oi" man and woman that 
natural la.w imposes on them, we see how difficult 
it is for a husband and wife to be so harmoniously 
united that the wife will not become the slave of her 
husband and children and live a wretched life of toil 
and suffering, and often both of them, and become 
partial slaves to hired help, or the hirelings become 
their slaves. To remedy this condition of life, associa- 
tions should be formed, where each person can do 
their duty and not be overtaxed by husband, wife, 
children or hired help. To make such an association 
a living, peaceful harmonial success, requires a great 
amount of knowledge, experience and wisdom Human 
nature is so various and complicated by needs and 
wants, mistakes and ambition that it takes a long 
time for people to learn what is good hate and what 
is bad hate, what is good love and what is bad, what 
is good selfishness and what is bad, what is good prac- 
tical life and what is bad, and how to take good care 
of themselves, to enable them to take good care of 
others. 

Until they have been educated in all these 
things and are taught that they are responsible 
beings and must take the responsibilities of life, in 
associations, or in general society, they are not 
prepared to enter associations .as full partners, but 
only as pupils, and receive only such share of the net 
profits as belong to students and apprentices. When 
this is done we have equal rights principles as the 
basic rules of families and associations for a foun- 
dation for a just republican religion and government. 



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Chapter III. 
EELIGION. 

The word religion, is derived from the Latin re- 
iigio, and this is said to be derived from reiegere, (to 
reconsider), and also from religare, (to bind fast). 
In the widest sense of tha word, it comprehends all 
forms of faith and acts of worship. Its theological 
meaning is : To bind and rebind people to their God. 
Practically, in all the great religions, it has been the 
rule of the priests in the name of God. Scientifically 
it means : That the laws of nature bind and rebind 
all people to the God of nature, and they cannot help 
themselves. The Law- God of nature, rules man, and 
man, to be in agreement with this God, must make 
laws that are in harmony with man's necessities and 
nature's laws. Man, being forced to obey the laws 
of nature, must have the moral right to do so, in 
their religious associations, and they must be in har- 
mony with the material associations that proclaim 
these rights. These are based on scientific free 
speech, equal rights and good living wages to 
laborers. 

Having adopted this moral code and these moral 
principles, that are the wordly basis of the true 
religion, the next great object is to adopt the true 
worship of the true God that rules the heavens and 
the earth, by the fixed and unalterable laws of nature. 
He made the earth for man to cultivate foolishly, and 
be in w^ant ; or wisely and have abundance. He gives 
men minds to acquire knoAvledge and wisdom, that will 
bring them into harmony with the law God of nature ; 
or, they can refuse to get knowledge and wander after 
other gods, and ignorantly and foolishly ask them 
to protect their persons from the penalties of ignor- 
ance and folly, and to turn stones into bread to keep 
them from starving, and water into wine, that they 
may get drunk and forget their troubles ; but the 
wise religious people will calculate to get their bread 
from grain raised under the natural laws, and never 
drink wine to get drunk. 



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The first great duty of the scientific religious, is 
to get knowledge and wisdom ; tlie second, to do all 
work according to their greatest knowledge and high- 
est wisdom. This is the most sacred worship ever 
offered to a deity, and has produced the most wonder- 
ful blessings ever showered upon a people. 

In getting this knowledge of earthly matters, the 
scientists have relied upon experience and observa- 
tions. In getting a knowledge of the spiritual heav- 
ens, they have relied upon the information of spirits 
through the mediums— brought out by modern Spirit- 
ualism—and these have been consulted upon all 
earthly subjects, with great benefit to the persons 
consulting them. 

From these statements it is plain to see the 
difference between the ancient religions and the scien- 
tific Christianity is founded on faith obtained from 
ancient sacred books ; the words are sacred, whether 
true or false, and the falsehoods which they con\ ey 
to the reader, aie as sacred as their truths, and they 
are read with the same solemn, impressive air, as 
those that are true. The scientists allow nothing to 
be sacred but truth and justice, tempered with 
mercy. It must be proved true and just before it 
becomes sacred. 'I he Christians' greatest study is to 
increase their faith and love in their feelings ; the 
scientific religionists' greatest study is to get knowl- 
edge and wisdom, that will enable them to form just 
judgments. The Christians make knowledge subject 
to faith, and wisdom subject to love; the scientific 
religionists make faith subject to knowledge, and love 
subject to wisdom. We often hear of people loving 
not wisely but too well, and that they had too much 
love and faith, but never that they had too much 
wisdom and knowledge. 

The Christian religion is a sacrificial religion, 
based upon the horrible principle that the best man 
was murdered to save the worst, and it proclaims all 
the best and worst principles of all the sacrificial 
rehgions. These good and bad principles are so 
ingeniously put together as to deceive a great many 
of the best of people, and are the delight of the great- 
est of deceivers and the power of popes, cardinals 



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and other clergy. Their bible was made and pro- 
claimed holy, for that purpose, by a set of lying 
priests. Moshiem says all would lie — not an excep- 
tion is made, and he is one of the most reliable of 
Christian writers. The religious scientists reject all 
such books as authority to establish any truth or 
justice, and reconsider the statements with the great- 
est care. This has caused the Christians to murder 
them as long as they could keep up that barbarism, 
and to slander them for telling the truth, even to this 
day . 

From this history of Christianity and Christians, 
the conclusion is reached, that the more true and just 
the statements of reformers are, the m'ore their 
enemies will persecute and slander them. As an ex- 
ample, we will turn to the history of Thomas Paine. 
He was one of the purest and noblest men that ever 
lived on earth. His life was devoted to doing good 
to mankind. He proclaimed his religious opinions, 
and it seems no better were ever uttered, or can be. 
He believed in one God, and no more. So do the 
Christians, but they divide him into three pieces, and 
Paine did not, and they abused him for not doing 
their bidding, in the most slanderous manner. The 
world was his country ; heaven was the Christians' 
country. It would seem that these countries were 
far enough apart, so that they need not quarrel about 
the possession, but the Christians invaded the world, 
proving that they were not honest in their declara 
tion, and meant to lie and deceive the people, and 
they said all manner of evil of Paine, and persecuted 
him as much as the times would permit, because he 
said this was a blessed world. His religion was to do 
good. The Christian religion was to do Christ. 
Here is the point where Christian spite and ven- 
geance showed itself in the most cruel manner. For 
more than a hundred years they have traduced him, 
and lied about him, because he said virtue would save 
the people. It seems as though the Christians' total 
depravity or incarnate devil had entered them, to 
make them say all manner of evil of him since his 
death, as they have, and continue it yet. He hoped 
for eternal life ; so do the Christians ; yet nothing 



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abates the Christian vengeance, because he did not 
approve the action of the priests, who were known 
to be the worst class of learned people in the world, 
and always had been. He simply told the truth 
about them. 

Here we have a little sketch of the religions of 
one of the greatest and best men that ever lived ; a 
hero of our revolution and of the French revolution 
of 1789; a man who always contended for the just 
rights of the people wherever he was, on the Eastern 
or Western continents or the islands of the sea ; a 
man whose character for truth, honesty, intelligence, 
virtue and bravery, was never excelled. If such a 
man is persecuted and reviled for telling rhe truth 
and proclaiming as good a religion as was ever uttered 
by man, what can ordinary men or women expect but 
to lose their lives by Christian malice if they pro- 
claim the true religion, and get the people to combine 
together to put it in practice ? 

Let the result be what it may ; we have the 
example of Thomas Paine to be guided by. He 
adopted the best principles he knew, and was guided 
by them to the best of his ability. We must adopt 
the best we know and can agree upon, and live by 
them as near as it is possible in this age. Tlie 
religion that was fastened upon the world by a set of 
lying priests in the 4th century, controls the making 
of laws, so that truth is not allowed to be told by in- 
fidels in courts of justice and equity, and is consid- 
ered infamous slanders when told out of court, will 
prevent people from living just lives, as long as they 
are the law of the land. But let us claim the riglit 
to make right laws and live by them as best we can, 
until the people finally declare that no law on the 
statute book shall be interpreted so as to prevent 
people from doing right and speaking the truth, in 
this country, in court or out of it. 

From these statements it is seen that there can 
be no agreement between persons believing in these 
different religions. One says the greatest salvation 
comes from the blood of the lamb ; the other says 
the greatest salvation comes from the best work of 
the most intelligent people. The highest civilization 



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of to-day is based upon the principle of punishing 
the guilty to save the innocent, and there is not, nor 
ever was, any people that said that the killing of the 
innocent, to save the guilty, was the best w^ay of sal- 
vation to be adopted, except lying priests or 
ignorant and fanatical religionists. It is too 
ridiculous and false to be believed by any but the 
ignorant and superstitious. If any one will look into 
the secret history of its adoption by the Christians, 
they will find, that the priests calculated that the 
more false and absurd the doctrine they could make 
people believe, the easier it would be to make them 
obey their orders, and this, with the trinity, and that 
faith would remove mountains, and belief will raise 
the dead» and prayers will stay the pestilence and 
feed the famishing, better than cleanliness and work, 
were some of the falsehoods employed by priests to 
make the ignorance of the people the bliss of the 
priests, and their superstitions to be the guiding star 
of their hopes to get earthly riches and honors and 
heavenly bliss. In this they adopted the worst doc- 
trines that they could find in the archives of Eome, 
where all kinds of religion were represented, because 
they found the worst doctrines caused the most pow- 
erful priesthoods, and the truer the doctrines, the less 
important the priests, and it may be prophesied with 
entire certainty, that when the true religion is adopt- 
ed by the people, this worst class of learned people 
the world has ever seen, will disappear from the 
earth — never to return. 

Protestantism is a mixed religion ; partly Christ- 
ian and partly scientific; just fitted to be the 
medium for people to take when leaving the sacrificial 
religion to adopt the scientific. It proclaims the 
right of private judgment and, at the same time, the 
words of their God to be infallible truth that must 
not be disputed. This would seem to stop disputes 
and arguments on religious subjects. But this was 
far from the facts. The words of their God's Holy 
Bible were made to have two meanings ; one material, 
the other spiritual. This enabled the believers to 
dispute and wrangle about the meaning of words and 
sentences- There was very little argument used by 



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them for the first hundred years after the reformation. 
The leaders in this reform used the power of perse- 
cution, confiscation, the dungeon and the faggot, to 
stop arguments on that subject or any other that 
they thought hinged upon it, and it took about 
another hundred years before the Christian Protest- 
ants were so far reconciled to the right, as to allow 
people to use it fairly without trying to stop it by 
the hangman's rope. 8ince that time, which is more 
than a hundred years, the scientists have had nearly 
as much to do in shaping the morals of the people 
and the laws of Protestant governments as Christians 
have. During this time, these governments have 
gained all their glory and dominated the world. 
Their moral principles have reached all people and 
changed the thoughts and habits of the people for 
the better. Any one can see how slow has been the 
progress from the last .end of the middle ages to the 
present enlightened age ; and further, they can see 
wherever Christianity goes, there are taught the prin- 
ciples that made the horrors of the dark and middle 
ages, and wherever the Protestant Christians go, they 
teach the same doctrines, modified by a restricted 
free thought. But wherever scientific Protestantism 
goes, there are the most enlightened and best people 
of the earth, with the best religious institutions. 

From the experience gained in the last six 
hundred years beginning with the most ignorant 
people of any in Europe, made so by Christianity, 
it is easy to see what educated the people. Christian- 
ity is just the same as it was then, the same bible, 
the same worship, the same creeds, the same 
doctrines and priests acting in the same part, and 
doing just as they had been for the seven hundred 
years previously, that had produced the ignorance, 
superstition aM barbarism of the people at that time. 
Then the people began to get knowledge, the power 
of the priests began to decay, they began to be guided 
by the ways of Avisdom more, and less by the various 
wilds of love, until now, when wisdoms ways, are put 
in practice more than ever before, and love is put 
down as a fickle jade, that leads to ruin more than to 
goodness and virtue, the people mistrust the priests 



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who are the greatest of lovers, and the teachers that 
love are the best guide for people, more than ever 
before, as they have learned in the past, that thirteen 
and a half per cent of them have proved criminals and 
they have every reason to believe they are no better now 
than they have been. The religion that has been grow- 
ing for hundreds of years, and is still growing in the 
minds of the people, is the religion of thought, the 
religion of ideas, the religion of knowledge, capped and 
cemented together by wisdom, which proclaims that 
justice shall be done, tempered with mercy. This is 
the only compromise that it can make to the ignorant, 
the superstitious and the wilfully wicked criminals, 
and teachers of false doctrines, that make the people 
malicious criminals, as priests have in past times. 
The time has come when the religion of science, 
Avhich is wisdom, must be formulated and put in prac- 
tice more than ever before, because the people have 
become so intelligent as to call for it, and the teachers 
of the new religion must put its principles and theo- 
ries into the most practical form possible, to be up 
with the demands of the age, upon them. They must 
make a religion that will accept new ideas, and be 
as progressive as other sciences, and not stand alone 
as Christianityjdoes, a monument of the dark ages, but 
its monument should be in harmony with the times 
and ready to receive all truth that is discovered in 
coming ages. — Why are religious people so divided 
as all religions are based on spi]'itualism. The Buddh- 
ists turn from Spiritualism and worship Buddha 
their God, as more true than truth, more just than 
justice, more virtuous than virtue, more wise than 
wisdom, more good than goodness, more know- 
ing than knowledge, and better to follow, than the 
best in all space, and all time. The followers of Con- 
fucius and all the Pagan Asiatic man Gbds, word 
Gods and spirit Gods, worship them because of this 
belief. The Jews followed their spirit God, Jehovah, 
because he was better than justice. The Greeks and 
Eomans followed their Gods, Jupiters and others 
because they were stronger than truth and better 
than justice, and more peaceful than the laws of 
nature. All these religionists left spirituahsm and 



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followed some imaginary God and went to killing 
each other, instead of reasoning together. The Christ- 
ians took the best and worst of all these religions 
and made their Christ and Cliristianity. They left 
Spiritualism and made a man God, word God and 
spirit God and then went to killing tliose who did not 
worship their ono- three God. They condemned 
reason, and that left them nothing but beastly light- 
ing to settle disputes. The Swedenborgians left Spir- 
itualism and followed Swedenborg. The Moham- 
medans left spiritualism and worshiped Mohammed. 
The Mormons left spiritualism and followed Joe Smith. 
All these religionists have left spiritualism, truth and 
humanity to follow some man of God that they 
thought stronger and better, and they have shed riv- 
ers of blood to establish it, but have never let in rea- 
son to prove it, and with all the facts of knowledge, 
to settle the disputes. Now come Spiritualists with 
their religion of reason. They stand by Spiritualism 
as a great spiritual fact. It joins with truth, justice 
and humanity and declares that each and every one 
of these is greater, and more powerful than all the 
prophets, Gods, Christs and saviours, that the world 
has ever seen. Spiritualism is more spiritual, truth is 
more true, justice is more just, humanity is more hu- 
mane, than any or all the Gods, saviours, Christs and 
prophets, that ever existed. The law of nature 
is their God, the spirits of heaven are their 
advisers, and reasonable conclusion, their aim, 
knowledge and wisdom their object to guide 
them to humane principles. They agree with the 
principles of a just government. All these subjects 
will be considered at the Mount Pleasant Park Camp 
Meeting in August, by those who wish it, there by 
the side of the great father of waters, near the center 
of the continent of North America, we will declare 
the truest religion and the best government ever 
uttered by man or his God. 



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Chapter IV. 
GOVEENMENT. 

Governments derive their just powers from the 
consent of the governed. This is a true briUiant 
statement that flashed on the world of mankind from 
the minds of some of the most advanced thinkers, 
more than a hundred years ago, and has been read 
and quoted as an inspirational and reasonable truth 
ever sin»^e, yet has never been put into law practi- 
cally, except m parliamentary law^s, which I denomi- 
nate the science of free speech. Our lawmakers adopt 
thisscience to keep them in order, when discussing the 
questions arising among them in making laws. They 
have made laws that gave people equal rights to talk 
in their meetings, but never that gave them equal 
rights in their w^ork as citizens That is, equal rights 
to life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness. 
If they adopt such a law they wdll be in harmony, so 
far, with the best principles that a husband and wife 
can adopt, and the best that larger associations can 
agree upon, and until such a law is passed they are 
in harmony with the w^orst principles that control 
husbands and wives, and the worst principles that 
people adopt in larger associations, because the law 
that compels the wife to be subject to the husband, 
or the husband be subject to the wdfe, or one that 
makes the Avife give her earnings to the husband and 
deprives her of the necessaries of life, is just as much 
a thief, as is the sneak thief that steals her earnings. 

The next great work of the government is to make 
la ws that will give w' ages working people fair living pay 
FOR FAIR WORK. For more than eighty years after the 
people of this country declared their independence, 
the government upheld slavery, and in that time they 
raised up the most brutal set of masters and their 
toadies, that ever cursed a nation. Their plan w^as to 
give the slaves the poorest fare that it was possible 
for them to live on and work, and when the work was 
not satisfactory, they w^ere brutally punished, it may 
be wdiipped, until their backs were cut by the lash to 



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a ]elly and then washed with salt and water ; this was 
all the pay they were allowed, for their faithful work. 
To support this system, the ownerp of these slaves 
made war on the government, and now look at the 
cost of whipping them and freeing the slaves. Behold 
our brothers starving in Libby and Andersonville and 
tortured by these brutes in the most excruciating man- 
ner that they had learned by theory and practice in a 
life time. A.11 this came upon our intelligent faithful sol- 
diers and citizens, because we had allowed men and 
women to be held as slaves, and worked, starved and 
tortured to death. When it came to war, our most 
faithful Union citizens were starved and tortured to 
death. This was the most diabolical penalty that the 
people of this country had to pay, for permitting per- 
sons to own and punish the working classes. Now we 
are raising up another, just such a set of brutal 
gentlemen and ladies and their bulldozing assistants, 
who are in favor of forcing laborers to work at star- 
vation wages, and a great majority of the rulers of 
the states and nation, a/^ree to use their military 
power, and shoot the workmen who rebel against 
being worked and starved to death, and are engaged 
in riotous acts because made partly insane, by want 
and insults. Public opinion does not allow them to 
be burned at the stake and tortured and murdered as 
the slaves were, but there is no law to prevent 
riotous workmen from being used as rebellious slaves 
were, and soon these gentlemen and ladies will override 
public opinion and introduce tortures of the most 
painful sort to prevent workmen from demanding 
their just rights, unless the people rise in their might 
and declare that wages working people shall have 
good living pay for their work. 

If any one doubts these statements about pay for 
work, let them take a case into any of the courts of 
justice or equity ; say a railroad worker or miner, who 
is receiving 65 cents a day, and prove that it costs at 
least $1.00 to live anything like comfortable a day, 
and that a little i lore should be allowed to enable the 
economical to lay by for a rainy day. The court will 
show the contract that their wages were to be less. 
Yes, that is true, says the worker, but it's a swindle ; 



I cannot live on it. Now, what I want, is fair living 
pay for my fair work, and I declare that contract is 
not as sacred as justice. I want sufficient pay to 
keep soul and body together, and this will not do it. 
and the Court will dismiss the case and turn the 
workman out of court before he had really time to 
state his case. Perhaps he will be informed that 
workingmen have no rights that gentlemen employers 
are obliged to respect, or that these gentlemen have 
the divine rights of kings to starve working people, 
or under any consideration, the contract is more 
sacred than justice. 

The judges will not institute a commission to en- 
quire into the facts and justice of the case, as did 
Grov. Piusli of Wisconsin as referred to in my chapter 
on association, but will follow the guide of the gover- 
nors of Ohio and Pennsylvania, and hnve the workeis 
shot instead of paid. Some swindling contracts are 
annulled, but not those that swindle wages workers. It 
seems the determination of most of the rulers of the 
state and nation, to tax people to support monopolists 
now, as it was anteiior to the rebellion to support the 
slave holders. The same arguments are used in each 
case, that they have the entire right to get the most 
work they can^ out of workers at the least cost. This 
state of things can not last long, before gentlemen 
will begin to threaten senators and representatives 
and finally knock them down in their seats as Sumner 
was by Preston S. Brooks, if they are as persistent 
for workmen as he was for the slaves. Then in defence 
of their brutality they will say of the senators and 
representatives the same that Senator Butler of South 
Carolina said of Sumner, that they never had been in 
good society, although they may have been in the best 
society in the Northern states and Europe as Sumner 
had ; but he had never been much in the society of 
gentlemen in the Southern states, who made laws to 
whip women and make them submit to the most dis- 
graceful acts, and who had sworn allegiance to the 
Lnited States government and boasted of violating 
their solemn oaths, and who were accustomed to fight 
duels to defend their honor when they had no moral 
honor to defend, and thev will send hundreds of canes 



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to the gentleman brute who will do the deed as they 
did to Brooks ; then will come a bloody Kansas to end 
in another war, where these gentlemen and ladies will 
unite again to make Andersonville for those who ex- 
pose the cause of the wages working people, for it 
must be remembered that the men who send to 
foreign countries and make contracts with workers 
there, for them to come to this country and work at 
starvation wages and insist that such workmen as are 
living here shall take such pay or be turned off, to 
make room for these deceived foreigners, and the 
officers of the state or nation that approve of the man 
who vetoed the bill to reduce the car driver's time for 
a days work from sixteen hours per day to twelve 
hours will finally do any cruelty to oppress wages 
working people. The approving of such vetoes means 
that the persons do not care for the safety of the pas- 
sengers, or the lives of the drivers. They are deter- 
mined to have despotic power and the barbarism that 
it inflicts. When these gentlemen are supported by 
the military and naval officers, wo refuse the eight 
hour law, you can see how little respect they have for 
law, public opinion or humanity, when they have 
power to commit cruelties on wages working people. 
The history of the world, and of this country 
shows that the abuse of the working people destroys the 
best governments, it made hells in place of the most 
enlightened governments of Greece, Kome and the 
Southern states of this union, as an eminent officer of 
our union is reported to say *'war is hell". Abuse 
of working people makes constant war ; as Thomas 
Jefferson had said "there is constant war between 
master and slave" and this can not continue many 
years, without making war among the masters and 
their toadies against the working people. It is 
useless to expect any different result of the trial 
in this Union. Many times workingmen strike on 
wrong principles, and this will always- be the case 
until just laws are made to guide them. When 
courts are authorized to send out commissioners to 
determine the cost of living, and legislatures send out 
committees to report what fair living wages must be, to 
be fair to the laborer, and the reports of committees 
of societies of laljoring people are received as assist- 



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ance to forming just estimates, and laws passed that 
governors and presidents are forbid to send soldiers 
to shoot down strikers, nntil their cause has been 
examined, and decided that their claim is unjust, and 
their riotous doings unjust. Judging from past ex- 
perience it wdll be vastly more just to consider rioters 
innocent until they are proved guilty by a court of 
equity on the abo^e plan, than to assume that the 
employers are innocent on the plan that has been 
adopted in the past. 

Look at the South. The employers have formed 
mob societies, to govern the working people and take 
control of the governments, and these mobs and gov- 
ernments have been justified by the republicans and 
democrats and their governments sanctioned by the 
states and nation, and yet therenever have been mobs 
of working people that where so cruel and blood- 
thirsty as these employers have been ; and they have 
not been tried for their murders, but justified and 
honored by giving them the most important offices. 
All this has been done, since these employers had 
been whipped back into the Union, by its military 
power and have utterly refused to obey the civil 
power and now have the control of the government. 
The question before the American people has been for 
a number of years and is now, shall the military 
power of the Union govern the Southern states, or 
shall these mobs govern them ? The question has 
been settled by the two governing parties, that they 
prefer the mobs of gentlemen, to the military rule of 
the Union, which is under the control of the civil 
power. Eepublicans may deny this statement, but 
they had the full power, and allowed mob representa- 
tives and senators to take their seats in Congress, ana 
finally they and their copperhead friends in the North 
have got the control. 

Now the question is : what is the bottom cause of 
the trouble between the North and South ? It is that 
the North gives every child a chance to get a com- 
mon school education ; the South has utterly refused 
to give all the children that chance. The southern 
plan formerly was to strip female teachers, tar and 
feaiher them, and maltreat male teachers, tar and 



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feather them ; many of them were murdered. The 
same hatred is manifested now, as formerly, and 
seliool houses are burned and teachers driven oft'. All 
the hatred of the Southerners of Northern people has 
its foundation because they are instructors and will 
cause the poor whites and blacks to think for them- 
selves. This is proved by their acts to southern 
instructors as well ; no matter who it is that instructs 
these poor people, they hate them, with all the 
vengeane of demons. If any one has any doubts 
about this, let them go on the plantations and com- 
mence schools, to faithfully instruct the children. 
During the war and for a few years after, teachers were 
permitted to instruct the people, but the statistics 
from 1870 to 18S0, since mob-rule governed these 
states, show that the people are falling back into 
their old time ignorance ; this makes these states the 
Russia of America, ignorance will make a despotism 
as well in the frigid North as in the torrid South. It 
is not the hot blood of the South that makes despo- 
tism, nor the cool blood of Russia, but the ignorance 
of the people. 

What can be done to unite these people and have 
a harmonious government V Make the North [give up 
her common school educational institutions, or make 
the South establish as good common schools for aU 
their children, and see that they are as well educated 
as northern children are. The first plan will carry 
the people back to the barbarism of ignorance, if it 
can be executed, the second will carry the whole 
country forward to the highest degree of civilization 
and enlightenment if it can be done. To put this 
matter at rest and have the representatives and sena- 
tors show their hands on this subject ; let us send to 
them for their adoption, the following resolution : 

" Resolved, That every state be required to see that 
every child has a fair opportunity to learn to read, 
write and cipher." If they refuse or neglect to do 
this, they shall be deprived of a representation in 
Congress, because we know by experience that the 
rulers in such states mean to destroy this republic 
and deprive the people of their just rights. Form- 
erly, when they divided the union, they went out of 



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Congress of their own choice ; after this, it is best for 
the intelligent union people to have their choice. 

For the life of this republic rests upon the intel- 
ligence of the people, and all states and territories 
that do not provide schools to give such intelligence 
to all, we may conclude, are opposed to a just repub- 
lic, and they should be taxed by the union as all other 
people tax themselves. These enemies should not be 
allowed to go untaxed, who have taxable property. 
The citizens of this republic who are its enemies, 
who take every opportunity to traduce it and make 
war upon it, should not be used better than good 
loyal citizens. The statistics of 1880 show that more 
than half the people of South Carolina were too 
Ignorant to read and write, and it is well known that 
this state was the head and front of the rebellion. 
These statistics further show that nearly half the 
population of the rest of the states lately in rebel- 
lion, were in the same state of ignorance. The ques- 
tion is : Shall the people tax these rebels to educate 
the people, or let them go untaxed and make a rebel- 
lion, and then tax them to put it down as all are 
ta^xed ? Those persons who oppose taxing the prop- 
erty holders to educate all children, are in favor of 
war, with its horrors of }. estilence and famine, and 
the torturing of soldiers and prisoners by inhuman 
officers When all the people are educated alike in 
this union there will be harmony among them on this 
most important matter. 

The next subject to harmonize the people on, is, 
the making of laws to regulate the wealth of the 
country, so that there can not be a useless set of rich 
do-nothings and a poor set of drones cast upon the 
country. The object is to buildup the great middle 
class and make it as large as possible and have as few 
of the very rich and begging poor as can be justified 
by the best laws that the best of people can make. 
Such laws as will prevent people from becoming so 
rich as to forget their duty and their God ; or being 
so poor as to curse the country they live in, and the 
God that made them. The best way yet devised is by 
a judicious system of taxes upon incomes and upon 
great landed estates, so great on land as to finally 



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have the real income g<i to the cultivators. In all 
these taxes the United States should have control 
and make them uniform throughout the union. In 
all common taxes the states should have control and 
make them as equal and just as possihle. 

The salaries of the officers of this government 
should he consistent with the incomes of the people 
they represent, the same as the salaries of the rulers 
of England were made consistent with the lords of 
England. They were the support of the crown, and 
it was their plan to make the wearer of that crown 
have a place superior to any other place in the king- 
dom, and make it continue during the life of the 
king or queen. In this government, the president is 
a representative of all the men citizens of the coun- 
try, and his salary should he consistent with their 
incomes and their condition in life. Very few of the 
presidents have had economy enough to save from 
their salaries sufficient to support them, after they 
were retired to private life. This has forced the gov- 
ernment to give them pensions and subsidies to pre- 
vent them from being paupers in the poor houses of 
the country. Instead of the great salaries now paid 
to the president and other great officials, three- 
fourths of it should be reserved for pauper officials to 
make them homes, like the soldiers' homes. They 
need not be under military control, unless that kind 
of despotism is deemed necessary to keep them in 
order, as it is with the old crippled soldiers in their 
homes. The idea is to have good civil homes for all 
these heroes of peace and war, and not have them 
begging congress to make gift appropriations for 
their support. 

Of all the most infamous laws ever made to rule 
a home, the despotic military laws adopted by con- 
gress to govern poor old crippled soldiers, in their 
soldiers' homes, are the worst. These soldiers fought 
and established the right to have homes governed by 
civil law, yet congress does not make such homes for 
them, but puts them under despotic military laws 
and military incivility, for there is no civility required 
by these laws of officers to soldiers. It is an insult 
to these officers, for these disabled veterans to respect- 



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fully state their grievances when an officer makes a 
command ; it is talking back, and the poor old cripple 
must be sent to the guard house for it. It is a com- 
mand to be obeyed, not a request to be civilly consid- 
ered, and under tyrants it is the concentration of 
barbarism, torture and murder. From these insults 
and cruelties, these old crippled men should be re- 
lieved by an act of congress and none should be con- 
demned to military rule until proved guilty of violat- 
ing some civil law and sentenced by a civil magistrate, 
after a fair trial. Without this condemnation, it is 
one of the most dastardly deeds ever committed by a 
legislative body upon the heroes that saved liberty to 
their people. I have not space to say more here, but 
will refer the reader to a pamphlet issued by Geo. M. 
Hare, entitled "Mysteries and Miseries" ; his address 
is Oshkosh, Wis. He was an inmate of the homes at 
Daj'ton, Ohio, and Milwaukee, Wis,, for some years 
and gives a clear statement of the insults, sufferings 
and punishments inflicted on innocent old heroes by 
military despots. There are great numbers of people, 
that join in requesting the governors and legislatures 
of each and every state, to do all they can to stop the 
military law% from being the rule to govern in these 
homes, and we petition the president and congress of 
the United States to put these homes under civil 
law. Make them the homes of the free, in the land 
of the brave. 

As the various denominations of Christians have 
their chaplains appointed to visit and console their 
church members, I would ask one to be appointed 
to that office for the Spiritualists and free religionists, 
as many of them say they are starving for spiritual 
food and the consolations of the Spiritualists gospel. 
Dr. Juliet H. Severance has been named as a proper 
person to fill that office. 

The office of president of the United States of 
America should be abolished, it has more duties to 
fulfill than any man can do, only as a despot. He can 
know next to nothing of the capacity of the persons 
he appoints to office, only in exceptional cases : the 
secretary should have the appointing power, then we 
Aiould have warriors at the head of the war depart- 



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ment, statesmen at the head of the state depart- 
ment, financiers at the head of treasury department 
and postmasters at the head of the post office depart- 
ment, if the people wanted to have such persons as 
their officers. 

Now we have peace men for presidents in time of 
war, like Madison and Lincoln and these do very- 
well, but when the wars are over, we have warriors for 
presidents in time of peace, like Jackson and Grant, 
and they make the most disgraceful state appoint- 
ments ever made. One had his kitchen cabinet and 
the other his whiskey rings, Indian rings and they 
(juarrelled with the best statesmen of their time like 
Webster and Clay, and Sumner and Fenton. All they 
wanted was the power of a Caesar, a Cromw^ell, or a 
Bonaparte, to silence all statesmen who differed with 
them. 

Gen. B. F. Butler may not have been the greatest 
military commander of modern times, but his record 
is fair in that regard ; but as a statesman general, he 
has no superior in the annals of history. He quietly 
submitted to the insults of commanders Avho knew 
nothing of statesmanship, either of economy, civil 
government, financial principles or of the character 
of the men required to manage the monetary business 
of the country. 

The present president had the^ worst reputation 
of any man ever elected to that office. The hope is 
that he will be like one of old, who to get office was 
so wicked that the people were sorry he was ever born, 
but he made such a good ruler that all the people 
mourned at his death. 

ELECTIONS. 

There should be two important elections each 
year. One in the spring to elect local officers, and 
one in the fall to elect state and national officers. 
The days appointed for elections should be holidays 
by state and national laws. Many persons oppose 
these frequent and important elections. But such 
should remember that the price of liberty is eternal 
vigilance, even if they had a whole week of holidays 



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twice a year at election, it would not cost the people 
as much as it would be worth to them. One year of 
despotism would cost the people more, than such 
elections would cost them in a hundred years. All 
officers should be elected by the men and women 
voters, that is consistent with a just republic. 

MONEY AND CURRENCY. 

The United States have entire control of the 
monetary system of the country. They make 
and unmake money. If the rulers wish to put down 
speculation in money, they will see to it that at all 
centres of trade, money bears the same interest at all 
times. If the rulers wish to have people speculate in 
money, they will make it cheap or dear at the bidding 
of speculators. 

CRIMINALS AND INSANE. 

All criminals should be treated as insane, and be 
subjected to the discipline that is required to keep 
them from harming other people, and teach them their 
duties in life. 

SHALL THE CAPITOL BE REMOVED. 

The capitol has been removed many times and 
there never was a time when there were so many good 
leasons for its removal as now. 1. It is in one corner 
of the Union. 2. It is in the rebel corner, where the 
people hate the government. 3. It is an unhealthy 
location. 4. Our best men should not be forced to 
live in these malarial, pestilential districts, among 
a people made ignorant by state laws and be sub- 
jected to rebel platitudes, to make laws for the whole 
people of this Union. They should be placed in a 
healthy country, among an intelligent. Union loving 
people, where the pure air of the North rolls over the 
rich prairies, near the great father of waters, where 
it touches the shores of the state of Wisconsin. When 
the capitol of the Union is placed in such a salubrious 
climate, among such an intelligent people, it will 
be a sign that a just republic will last as long as the 
continent of North America exists as a part of the 
earth'p surface. Let all the people who wish for a 



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good government contend for a good healthy climate 
for the location of their capitol. Ijet us talk that 
over at the great Central Camp Meeting at Mount 
Pleasant Park, Iowa, at its meeting in August, and 
learn if attention can he called to the suhject in 
such a manner, as to have representatives from all 
parts of this continent, who will proclaim that a just 
government must liave its capitol among an intelli- 
gent people, in a healthy climate, near the center of 
their country. 

DEMANDS OF THE WOMAN's RIGHTS PAllTY. 

"We demand equality with man in all rights, 
privileges and responsibilities; and that a XVI. 
Amendment to the constitution be framed, guarantee- 
ing to woman protection in the exercise of the right 
of franchise." 

THE DEMANDS OP THE LABOR PARTY, 

as presented by the preamble and declaration of 
principles of the Knights of Labor of America : 

The alarming development and agressiveness of 
great capitalists and corporations, unless checked, 
will inevitably lead to the pauperization and hopeless 
degradation of the toiling masses. 

It is imperative, if we desire to enjoy the full 
blessings of life, that a check be placed upon unjust 
accumulation, and the power for evil of aggregated 
wealth. 

This much desired object can be accomplished 
only by the united efforts of those who obey the 
divine injunction, *'In the sweat of thy face shaft 
thou eat bread." 

Therefore, we have formed the order of Knights 
of Labor, for the purpose of organizing and directing 
the power of the industrial masses, not as a political 
party, for it is more — in it are crystallized sentiments 
and measures for the benefit of the whole people, but 
it should be borne in mind, when exercising the right 
of suffrage, that most of the objects herein set forth 
can only be obtained through legislation, and that it 



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is the duty of all to assist in nominating and sup- 
porting with their votes, only such candidates as will 
pledge their support to those measures, regardless of 
party. But no one shall, however, be compelled to 
vote with the majority ; and calling upon all who 
believe in securing " the greatest good to the greatest 
number," to join and assist us, we declare to the 
world what our aims are : 

I. To make industrial and moral worth, not 
wealth, the true standard of individual and national 
greatness. 

II. To secure to the workers the full enjoyment 
of the wealth they create, sufficient leisure in which 
to develop their intellectual, moral and social facul- 
ties : all of the benefits, recreation and pleasures of 
association ; in a word, to enable them to share in 
the gains and honors of advancing civilization. 

In order to secure these results, we demand at 
the hands of the State : 

III. The establishment of Bureaus of Labor Sta- 
tistics, that we may arrive at a correct knowledge of 
the educational, moral and financial condition of the 
laboring masses. 

IV. That the public lands, the heritage of the 
people, be reserved for actual settlers ; not another 
acre for railroads or speculators ; and that all lands 
now held for speculative purposes be taxed to their 
full value. 

V. The abrogation of- all laws that do not bear 
equally upon capital and labor, and the removal of 
unjust techicalities, delays and discriminations in 
the administration of justice. 

VI. The adoption of measures providing for the 
health and safety of those engaged in mining, man- 
ufacturing and building industries, and for indemnifi- 
cation to those engaged therein for injuries received 
through lack of necessary safeguards. 

VII. The recognition, by incorporation, of trades' 
unions, orders and such other associations as may be 
organized by the working masses to improve their 
condition and protect their rights. 

VIII. The enactment of laws to compel corpora- 
tions to pay their employes weekly, in laAvful money, 



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for the .labor of tbe preceding week, and giving 
mechanics and laborers a first lien upon the product 
of their labor to the extent of their full wages. 

IX. The abolition of the contract system on 
National, State and Municipal works. 

X. The enactment of laws providing for arbitra- 
tion between employers and employed, and to enforce 
the decision of the arbitrators. 

XI. The prohibition by law of the employment 
of children under 15 years of age in workshops, 
mines and factories. 

XII. To prohibit the hiring out of convict labor. 

XIII. That a graduated income tax be levied. 

And we demand at the hands of Congress : 

XIV. The establishment of a National monetary 
system, in which a circulating medium in necessary 
quantity shall issue direct to the people, without the 
intervention of banks ; that all the National issue 
shall be full legal tender in payment of all debts, 
public and private ; and that the government shall 
not guarantee or recognize any private banks, or 
create any banking corporations. 

XV. That interest-bearing bonds, bills of credit 
or notes shall never be issued by the government, but 
that, when need arises, the emergency shall be met 
by issue of legal tender, non-interest-bearing money. 

XVI. That the importation of foreign labor under 
contract be prohibited. 

XVII. That, in connection with the post-office, 
the government shall organize financial exchanges, 
safe deposits and facilities for deposit of the savmgs 
of the people in small sums. 

XVIII. That the government shall obtain posses- 
sion, by purchase, under the right of eminent do- 
main, of all telegraphs, telephones and railroads, and 
that hereafter no charter or license be issued to any 
corporation for construction or operation of any 
means of transporting intelligence, passengers or 
freight. 

And while making the foregoing demands upon 
the State and National Government, we will endeavor 
to associate our own labors : 



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XIX. To establish co-operative institutions, such 
as will tend to supersede the wage system, by the in- 
troduction of a co-operative industrial system. 

XX. To secure for both sexes equal pay for equal 
work. 

XXI. To shorten the hours of labor by a general 
refusal to work for more than eight hours. 

XXII. To persuade employers to agree to arbi- 
trate all differences which may arise between them 
and their employees, in order that the bonds of sym- 
pathy between them may be strengthened, and that 
strikes may be rendered unnecessary. 

THE DEMANDS OF LIBERALISM 

as pTesented by the National Liberal League, Col. 
Bobert G. Ingersoll president : 

GENERAL OBJECT. 

We have for our object the total separation of 
Church and State, so that equal rights in religion, in 
politics, and freedom and brotherhood in all human 
affairs may be established, protected and perpetuated. 

As a means to accomplish this general object, we 
endorse the following nine demands of Liberalism : 

1. That churches and other ecclesiastical pro- 
perty be no longer exempt from taxation. 

2. That the employment of chaplains in con- 
gress, in state legislatures, in the army and navy, in 
prisons and asylums, and all other institutions sup- 
ported by public money, shall be discontinued. 

3. That all public appropriations for educational 
or charitable institutions of a sectarian character shall 
cease. 

4. That all religious services sustained by natio- 
nal, state or municipal governments be abolished ; 
especially the use of the bible in the public schools, 
whether ostensibly as a text-book or avowedly as a 
book of religious worship, shall be abolished. 

5. That the appointment, by the president, or by 
the governors of the various states, of religious fes- 
tivals, fasts, or days of prayer, being unconstitutional, 
shall wholly cease. 

G. That the judicial oath be abolished, and that 
simple affirmation, under the penalties of perjury, be 
established in its stead. 



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7. That all laws directly or indirectly enforcing 
the observance of Sunday as the Sabbath shall be 
repealed : 

8. That all laws looking to the enforcements of 
^'Christian" morality be abrogated, and that all laws 
shall be conformed to the requirements of natural 
morality, equal rights, and impartial liberty. 

9. ' That in the practical administration of the 
Constitution, either of the nation or the several states, 
no privilege shall be conceded to Christianity, or any 
other special religion -— our entire political system to 
be founded and administered on a purely secular basis, 
and whatever changes shall prove necessary to this 
end, be consistently, unflinchingly, and promptly 
made. 

Chapter V. 

THE SPIRITUAL SCIENCES. 

Modern Spiritualism is a science that establishes 
the facts that the spirits of mankind live after the 
death of the body, and communicate with the people 
of earth. This science rests on well estabhshed man- 
ifestations and communications, that have been heard 
and witnessed hundreds of times, by the most learned 
and devoted scientists and scholars, and thousands 
upon thousands of times by well informed people, 
who were not scientists, but good common sense peo- 
ple, and close observers of the works of nature and 
spirit. I will mention a few of these manifestations : 

1st. Eaps that show an intelligent spirit— often 
naming the spirit. . 

2nd. Writing, by spirits taking possession of the 
medium's mind, or only his hand, and writing good, 
intelligent messages ; and many messages are written 
by spirit power on slates, or paper, without the help 
of the medium in a physical way. 

3d. The mediums lay their hands on the sick, by 
spirit directions, and they recover. ; 

4th. Spirits speak through mediums and give the 
people spirit knowledge, and the most convincing 
tests of the spirit's presence and power. 



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5th. Spirits photograph themselves on the sensi- 
tive plate of the photographer. 

6th. Spirits lift heavy bodies, and float mediums 
in the air. 

7th. Spirits prepare mediums to handle burning 
coals of fire, and to put their hands and faces in the 
hottest flames, without injury to them. 

8th. Spirits materialize so as to be recognized by 
their acquaintances, and they walk and talk with 
them. 

9th. Spirits make mediums clairvoyant and clair- 
audient. 

10th. Spirits are enabled by some mediums to 
bring flowers, plants, fruits and many other articles 
from a distance, into rooms where these mediums 
are. 

11th. Spirits tie knots in an endless rope ; take 
ofl from mediums their coats, when they are securely 
tied on and their hands tied together, and put them 
on again. 

12th. Spirits make articles disappear from closed 
rooms, and reappear in another part of the room, or 
it may be they could not be found again. 

13th. Spirits find lost articles and restore them 
to their owners. 

14th. Spirits give information to individuals of 
the utmost importance to them in their business and 
personal matters, and they will give it to nations and 
people generally, when the seek to be just and true 
to all the people. 

Many more kinds of communications might be 
mentioned, but persons wanting them, are referred 
to Epes Sargent's ''Scientific Basis of Spiritualism," 
and other works by Prof. Hare, Judge Edmunds, 
Prof. Crooks, Wallace and Zoellner, for accurate scien- 
tific accounts of these various manifestations. 

The teachings of these spirits are, that they 
know no more about a personal God than the people 
Ol the earth. The spirits are subject to the same 
law power of nature that the people are, who are in 
their earthly bodies, and they have no more control 
over these laws than people have in their bodies of 
flesh, but are subject to them and do aU their works 



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l)y the power these lawn i^ivt; them. Many of 
these spirits are as ignorant and superstitious as the 
most if^norant of the eartli, and these are tlie sj)irits 
that Pagans, Jews and Christians have declared 
Gods, hecause they couhi do some marvelous works, 
or these works were done in their presence. Then 
they made Gods out of men and heasts, that they 
pretended these Gods had endowed with godly 
powers to raise the dead and do other miracles, by 
overpowering nature's laws. But as many persons 
are raised to life, who were apparently dead, when no 
persons were present, the conclusion is, that there 
never was a person that was really dead, that is, his 
spirit completely separated from the body, that ever 
was resuscitated, so as to inhabit his old body and 
live in it on earth. Spiritualists have continued to 
get spirit conlmunications and rejected all gods but 
the laAv God of nature and spirit, and many seem to 
reject even that power as a God and make chance 
a God, instead of law; or, they reject the name of 
God, and yet have a supreme power. They are in a 
muddled state of confused ideas, and may be called 
spiritual atheists. They are without a basis to put a 
moral principle on, and yet are always talking of morals, 
riiey are without a basis to establish justice on, yet 
are always talking of justice. They are without a 
basis to establish humane principles, yet are always 
saying they want a humane religion and government. 
They are without a basis to establish truth upon, yet 
are always contending for the truth. I may be asked 
why I make these statements ? Because there must 
be a power, that is constant, reliable and unchange- 
able, or there is no truth, no justice, no moral prin- 
ciples, no humanity, that is permanent. To-day it is 
right — to-morrow it is wrong. If you have a Pagan 
or Christian God that is changed by prayer, or an 
atheist one that is chance, you have no virtue to 
reward or vice to punish, with any certainty, because 
prayer, or the blood of Christ, or chance, may have 
changed it, and Christian Spiritualists and the atheist 
Spiritualists are in a muddle between the two. The 
spirits teach that there is a power permanent, relia- 
ble and unchangeable, that enables them to do their 



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work and governs them while doing it, as well as at 
all other times. This power they call God, and I find 
that as good a name as I have ever heard. 

Most Spiritualists are contented with the fact 
that spirits communicate, and go to them for counsel. 
Such Spiritualists wonder why it is that there is such 
a division among them. The reason is plain : the 
spirits give different advice, and the brain of the 
world must take all this mixed advice and make har- 
mony out of it, which never is done. It is the 
business of this age to see that it is done, and 
that the Spiritualists have a fair chance to adopt the 
true God, and make a just religion, organization and 
government. 

This class of Spiritualists, keep it alive , among 
the most intelligent people in the country. It is so 
rooted in facts and in experience that it' is constantly 
gaining and 

The spirit's ceaseless tread, is lighter than noiseless air, 
Their voices softer than finest harp, played hy zephyrs fair. 
Yet their voices and their tread, resound from ]iole to pole, 
Lilwe music in the spheres, is lieard hy every living sonl. 

Spiritualism is so strong in truth, and so majes- 
tic in the^pubhc feeling among the people, so pure in 
its teachings of justice and virtue, so undisguised in 
its principles and so fair in its statements, that it 
must always command the attention of the high, the 
low, the learned and unlearned. It joins the sciences 
and makes a religion, it joins the humane and makes 
a just and merciful government, it joins with the 
moral and establishes the science of morals, it joins 
with the best socialists to estabhsh a just social 
science, it asks no privileges, immunities, pay or 
exemption from taxes by the government, only such 
as other religions have, and to have as much right to 
promulgate their doctrines 8,mong the people. If 
people are subject to tine and imprisonment for speak- 
ing against Christ and the Holy Ghost the same 
punishment should be meted out to those who speak 
against the truth, especially spiritual truth. 

We say to the Christians, come out and expose 
the body of your religious principles and Word- God 
to the searching investigation that the spiritual 



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doctrines are exposed to ; let us have no hiding behind 
gorgeous tapestry, flowery drapery, and flimsy ])a- 
geantry, or college arts and university deceptions and 
theological frauds and pulpit persuasion and rhod- 
montade. Bring out your Christ God and see how he 
difleis from our spirit mediums, bring out your Jewish 
God and let us see if he differs from our good and 
bad spirits, bring out your Devil and let us see 
if he differs from our spirits and spirit mediums that 
are called evil, bring forth your bible and let us com- 
pare its communications with the spirit communica- 
tions of the present day, and learn the exact difference, 
and determine which is most true, most humane, 
most just, most sensible and which would be most 
likely to increase the intelligence and comfort of the 
people. 

Let us compare the pulpit teachings of the 
Christian priests, with the platform teachings of 
spirit mediums and speakers, and learn which gives 
the most real instruction to their hearers ; then take 
up the works of standard authors of the Christians 
and compare their teachings with those of the Spir- 
itualists, and when we have gone through comparing 
these religious systems and statements, we will com- 
pare them witli justice, truth and righteousness in 
moral, social and religious ethics, and last and most 
important, what kind of a government do the religious 
principles call for V Shall the laws be like the kingdom, 
of heaven or like the republic of heaven V Shall the 
people have equal rights or the many be subject to 
the few ? These are very important religious questions. 

There is no part of the religion, of which Spir- 
itualism is the basis, that is so difficult to manage, as 
to prevent the adoption of saviours, Christs and Gods 
like all the old religions, and leave spirits and 
Spiritualism out in the cold. Soon after the spirit 
rappings became known, there were many Christs or 
Semi- Christs that presented themselves for leaders, 
and small bands of believers followed them. The mo- 
dern Christs were modeled after the ancient. Those 
were the saved and righteous who followed them, and 
the persons who would not, were devils and damned. 
They imitated the Christ of the Christians most, and 



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when these christs ^oi very wroth, they called those 
that would not follow them Devils and the children 
of their father the Devil. See Emma Hardinge m her 
history of Modern American iSpn-itnalism, Chapter 'Jl. 

The greatest number appeared in our conven- 
tions, but the great body of Spiritualists paid no more 
attention to them than they did to other mediums, 
because the spirits told them that the ancient Gods 
and Christs of religionists were abominations and 
frauds, got up by men to deceive the peoj^le, and 
their modern imitators were no better, and the pro- 
phecy is that modern Spiritualists will never switch 
off from Spiritualism, to a God or Christ, as all the 
old religionists did in making their religion, but will 
always ask for spirit information, of spirits and not 
conclude that one spirit knows it all. It is not con- 
sistent with the intelligence of the people of this age, 
but it is to make a common sense religion based upon 
scientific principles, and there is no probability that 
they will accept any other. 

Now the question is, what are the teachings of 
the spiritual sciences. A spiritual science is founded 
on a spiritual law or laws, the same as a material 
science is, on a natural law or laws. 

These sciences agree in the fact that they are 
founded on immutable laws, and both naturally teach 
the same religion and there never would have been 
any disagreement among people, if false gods had 
not been set up by priests, to enable them to rule the 
people instead of the true God and his agents, the 
spirits of heaven, and the most intelligent people of 
earth. Here I put in Avhat has been declared the 

RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS OF SPIEIIUALISM. 

Resoked^ 

'J'hat spirits teach. 

That man has a spiritual nature as well as a' cor- 
poreal, which spirit has an organized form composed 
of organs corresponding to those of the corporeal 
body. 

That the spirit lives after the death of the physi- 
cal body — in a spirit world as substantial to it, as this 
world is to our physical bodies. 



That the mental constitution or moral character 
of persons is not altered by physical death. 

That happiness or suffering in the spiritual state, 
as in this, depends on personal conformity to universal 
spiritual and physical laws. 

That the experiences and attainments in this life, 
lay the foundation on which the next commences. 

That since growth is the law of human beings in 
this life and in the spirit life, we infer an endless 
progression in the spirit life. 

That the spiritual world is not far off, but near, 
around or inter-blended with our present state of 
existence. Hence we are constantly under the cog- 
nizance of spiritual beings. 

That as individuals are constantly passing from 
the earthly to the spiritual state in all stages of men- 
tal and moral growth, the spirit world contains all 
grades of character, from the lowest to the highest. 

That each of tiiese shades of character gravitates 
to his own place of happiness or misery by the law of 
natural affinity. So that the seven spiritual spheres 
or many mansions, rather tend to confuse than to give 
a correct idea of spiritual life. 

That communications from the spiritual world 
are not necessarily infallible truth. But on the con- 
trary, partake of the imperfections of the minds from 
which they emanate and the mediums through which 
they come, and are liable to misapprehension by the 
persons who receive them. 

Hence that no inspired communication in this or 
any age, is authority any further than it expresses 
truth to the person who receives it. 

That inspiration, or the influx of ideas from 
spirits, is not a miracle of a past, but perpetual fact 
of all ages. 

That all known angelic and demoniac beings, 
which have manifested themselves in the past, weie 
disembodied human spirits. 

That all authentic miracles (so called) in the 
past, such as raising the apparently dead, healing the 
sick by laying on of hands, and the movement of 
heavy bodies without visible power, have been pro- 



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diiced by spirits in harmony with universal law, and 
can be repeated at anv time under suitable conditions. 

That the causes of all phenomena and the sources 
of all life, intelligence and love, are to be sought in 
the spiritual realm, not in the material. 

That the chain of causation leads to an infinite 
spirit that pervades all matter, and by natural selec- 
tion, under the laws of attraction and repulsion, 
makes all forms on earth and in heaven ; and is the 
same principle in the divine mind as is love and wis- 
dom among the wisest and best of mankind ; and these 
dual laws are the fathers and mothers of mankind, 
and make them brethren. 

That man as the offspring of this infinite parent 
is the most complete embodiiMent of this ''Father's 
fullness" which we can contemplate, and is an incor- 
ruptible portion of the divine essence, which is ever 
prompting to the right, and which in time will free 
itself from all imperfections incident to its earthly 
condition. 

That all evil is disharmony, more or less, with this 
divine principle, and was created to excite or induce 
people to get knowledge and turn evil into good. 
Ignorance is the greatest evil that ever afflicted man- 
kind ; and knowledge is the greatest good that ever 
came to them ; and bj^ it they can attain .the greatest 
amount of happiness that can be enjo3^ed in time or 
eternity. 

Resolved^ That the hearty and intelligent convic- 
tion of these truths, with a realization of spiritual 
communication, tends : 

To enkindle lofty desires and spiritual aspirations. 

To deliver from painful fears of death and im- 
aginary evil. 

To give a rational conception of spirit life. 

To stimulate to the worthiest employment of the 
present life. 

To energize the soul to all that is good ; and 
restrain it from all that is evil. 

'I o guard against the degrading influence of im- 
pure spirits. 

To promote our highest endeavors to purity of 
heart and life. 



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To stimulate the mind to the largest and freest 
investigations on all subjects. 

To deliver from all bondage of authority, except 
to truth. 

To make every man, more of an individual and 
more of a man. 

And to make each one modest, courteous and 
deferential. 

To promote charity and toleration for all differ- 
ences of belief. 

To cultivate and wisely direct the aliectional 
nature. 

To quicken the religious nature, making truth 
only acceptable. 

To quicken all philanthropic impulses, stimula- 
ting to enlightened and unselfish labors, for the good 
of mankind, under the encouraging assurance that 
the exalted spirits of our race, instead of retiring to 
idle away an etei^nity of inglorious ease, are inspiring 
us to the work, and aidiag it forward to a certain and 
glorious issue. 

The above is an amended abstract of the platform 
of resolutions, adopted at the Spiritualistic conven- 
tion held at Rochester, N. Y., August, 1868. It is a 
clear statement of the information spirits have given 
of themselves and their work in their heavenly home, 
and of the elevating and comforting influence they 
have on intelligent Spiritualists who commune with 
them. And the question naturally arises : What are 
those lofty desires, and high and noble principles ? 
They are answered in a general way in the resolu- 
tions. *'It is to promote charity and toleration for 
all differences of belief," and '' quicken them to the 
unselfish labors for the good of mankind." But it 
will be stated that other religions have made just 
such beautiful wordy promises, but wholly failed in 
establishing the special principles by which these 
glorious promises could be fulfilled. This being a 
historical fact, every intelligent person will naturally 
ask, what are the special moral principles that guide 
Spiritualists in their philanthropic work ? The 
following principles have been presented to many 
piritualists, and approved as containing the best 



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special practical principles that have as yet been 
formulated to benefit mankind. 

1st. You must get knowledge — of the God power 
and its laws. Of heaven and its spirit inhabitants. 
Of man and his necessities. Of wisdom and its 
ways. 

2nd. You must give others the rights you claim 
for yourself. Or equal rights ; to get knowledge and 
do just works in the pursuit of happiness. Man can- 
not form a just government until this principle is 
adopted. 

od. You must not damn or condemn a person 
for their belief or want of belief in any gospel, or any 
religion. Civihzation is based on the principle that 
people are not condemned for wrong belief, but only 
for wa'ong acts, 

4th. You must give persons the right at all 
times to express their opinions upon any subject, 
when it is done in order ; and to put their opinions 
into practice when it does, not interfere with the 
rights of others. The people who allow the greatest 
freedom of orderly speech and just works, are the 
most civilized. The ignorant and superstitious are 
easily led by heartless politicians, guided by bigoted 
priests, and lawless military chieftains, to stop persons 
from speaking the truth, or doing right, 

.')th. You must join witn the spirits, to heal the 
wounded, cure the sick, give the greatest consolation 
to the sorrowing and afflicted, and bring your gifts to 
be expended in the best way to feed and clothe the 
poor and give them the comforts of life, and the 
greatest amount of knowledge that they are capable 
of receiving. 

The test by which all religions must be judged, 
is the justice and truth of its principles, and the 
good deeds of its professors. The religion that pre- 
sents the best precepts and practices is the nearest to 
Ood or the cause of all good, and the religion that 
presents the worst, is the nearest to the devil or the 
cause of all evil. 

The spirits, with the mediums, protected by Spir- 
itualists, have done more to cure the sick and comfort 
the people in all their woes of body and mind than 



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the ministers of any other religion. Thns they have 
(lone their part in estahhshing the; best relif^ion that 
was ever given to mankind ; and now, if Spiritualists 
will do their duty as well, the spints will pour out 
greater l)lessings on tliem than were ever bestowed 
ui)on any other people of tlie eartli. 

1st. Spiritualists must bring their gifts together 
to make a society, home, church, and educational 
institution all in one ; where the ])oor can he self- 
supporting without oppressive lahor, and besides be 
alforded every opportunity to get a good education. 

•Jnd. The Spiritualists donating the funds, should 
form a society, elect officei'S, especially trustees, to 
take charge of the funds and invest them in a society 
home, as directed by a unanimous vote of the 
members. 

The object to be attained, is to establish a society 
home that is a heaven of harmony and love on earth. 
It is just as impossible to do this without individuals 
giving up a fair proportion of their pro])erty, as it is 
for them to go and dwell with the purest spirits of 
heaven without giving up their bodies and all their 
earthly ])ossessions. And again, it is just as impos- 
sible to establish a society home that will make the 
members self-supporting and happv, without estab- 
lishing the honrs of labor, as it is"for a company to 
be successful financially in any industrial business 
without a system, and regular hours when work must 
be done. In the final selection of ])ersons to become 
resident members of the home, those must be chosen 
who are the most faithful in doing their duty, and 
are glad they are there to do it. 

1st. The law of the home, is that resident mem- 
bers who are able, are expected to work eight hours 
per day for five days in a week ; it may be more in 
summer and less in winter. And two days each week 
are to be devoted to mental labor and recreation, for 
the same number of hours. 

'Jnd, The hours of physical labor may be made 
less when there is over-production ; more than is 
required for a safety fund. And more hours may be 
required when absolutely needed. The object is for 



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the poor laborers to partake of all the blessings of 
inventions and labor-saving machinery. 

3d. As a general rule, members are expected to 
do their work between the hours of eight a. m. and 
live p. M. But work must be done before and after 
these hours, and such work will be assigned to those 
members who prefer to do it. 

-Ith. Good and necessary work is the most sacred 
religious duty and worship that any person can per- 
form, and visitors and idlers should be carefully 
instructed not to interrupt this necessary worship. 

5th. That every resident member shall submit 
to a candid, friendly criticism, Avhen other members 
or themselves request it, at meetings held for the 
purpose, and there shall be no reply to such criticisms 
at the meeting. The object is for each member to 
learn patience and know themselves as others know 
them, and be as just as the purest spirits of heaven. 

6th. Marriages shall be civil contracts, the same 
as they are in heaven. Ownership of husband or 
wife shall be repudiated. 

It will be seen that Christians end their organi- 
zation where SpirituaUsts begin theirs. They organize 
to talk ; we talk and consider how to make the best 
organization. They adopt the principle that the 
body is cursed, and the spirit can only be blessed by 
faith. We, that the body is a blessed casket that 
holds a spirit that lives eternally, and both are 
worthy of our kindest consideration and care. 

We Avoisliip knowledge ; to learn to be just and fair, 
And reject all tlie gods that ever were known, 
AVe prav to the spirits, who answer our prayer. 
While the gods are as dumh as their idols of stone. 

We worship knowledge by working to get it. We 
worship the brotherhood of mankind, by working to 
make it a fact in practice. We do not call ourselves 
the children of God, and others "the children of the 
Devil." But we ask all people to join us and say, as 
the old translations are used on the pulpit : 

Christians give us a decent hook. 
Let truth shine out wherever we look. 
Not obscene, barbarous or vile, 
Nor deceiving, like a villain's siuile. 



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Shakespeare has been cleansed of its obscenities 
by women- readers, and those attending the theatres. 
Burns is prepared in the same way for the modern 
parlor, and ancient history is cleared of its falsehoods 
and obscenities, and fitted for our common schools. 
But the bible remains as obscene and false as it was 
made by the licentious and lying priests who lived 
between the second and sixth centuries. 

Constantine and his adherents made Christ one 
of the gods of the Roman empire. The people and 
the emperor were cunning, deceitful, ignorant and 
brutal, and they chose their gods for like qualities, 
and the noble sentiment, '' Let justice be done, 
though the heavens fall," was heard no more. Let 
us compare their God- Christ, elder brother, and 
ancient medium — as he is called — with a modern 
medium. A. J. Davis, at about seventeen years of 
age, eommenced his spiritual work, and was taken by 
his spirit to the best of spirits ; took council with 
them, was tempted by them, and was finally con- 
sidered worthy to receive the magic staff that con- 
tained a remedy for every disease that afflicted 
humanity, and guided by its injunction '' to always 
keep an even mind,'' he became a self-supporting 
gentleman, scholar and medium, boy as he was, that 
has no equal in history, or even fiction. He is the 
elder brother of all men in precepts and examples of 
wisdom and knowledge. 

Jesus Christ was about thirty years old, a 
matured man, when he commenced his ministry, and 
his spirit took him to the Devil, to be tempted and 
get instruction, and he, like his tempter, became a 
boor in manners ; and a poor weeping mendicant by 
precept and practice ; and, after having sought this 
lowest, vilest company, and being in it forty days, he 
leaves it with an order worthy of any person who liad 
gone to the Devil : " Get thee behind me Satan," and 
the dark spirit went behind him, and did his wonder- 
ful deeds ; and the clairvoyants saw him, and told 
Jesus ; and he denied it, in the coarse language the 
Devil had taught him : '' That they were the children 
of their father, the Devil;" and he said to Peter, his 
most trusted and intelligent disciple, ^' get thee 



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behind me Satan." Such a medium at this time 
would be considered obsessed by every intelligent 
Spiritualist, and medical experts would pronounce 
him insane ; and, if he proceeded to arm his follow- 
ers, as Jesus did, would have him put in an insane 
asylum. Yet Christians call him their God and 
Saviour, because the Romans made him one of the 
gods of their empire. Spiritualists, here are two 
mediums. One went to the Devil to be educated ; 
the other to the purest angels. One teaches a 
theology about an unknown God ; the other the phil- 
osophy of life and of living. One teaches you to 
obey the bible as the inspired word of God ; the other 
to obey the laws of nature as the laws of God. One 
teaches you to pray to God, and preach and beg for a 
living ; the other to pray to the spirits, get kiiowl- 
edge, and work for a living. Which will you choose 
for 3'Our elder brother, bosom companion and exemp- 
lar ? Let us meet together in conferences and con- 
ventions this year, and declare the gospel of Spirit- 
ualism, its religious, moral and social teachings, and 
especially the form of worship which is most essen- 
tial to saving body and spirit from pain and misery 
in this world and the summer land. 

Psychology is the powder one person or animal has 
over another, by means of their magnetic or electric 
force, with or without physical contact. Persons 
may be psychologized by intently looking at metals 
or other objects, or they may do it on themselves, by 
putting themselves in a negative condition, and 
making some passes over themselves, and may be 
without any movements, but merely by abstracting 
from the mind all thoughts, except wishing for the 
control. It may be a spirit which sometimes psycho- 
logizes the person. This is one of the most 
important ruling powers in animal life. It has 
always been felt, but its real power and importance 
has not been known until this age of science. Under 
a low grade of intelligence, it is the most powerful 
force to enable persons to establish despotisms. It is 
a blind force, that can be governed for good <nly by 
an intelligent, educated people. It is the beastly 
power men use, who teach that reason is dangerous. 



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They wish to keep people as ignorant and unreason- 
ing as beasts ; then they can rule people by the 
unreasoning forces of muscuJar strength and mag- 
netic power. 

PSYCHOMET^Y. 

This is one of the most singular manifestations 
of spirit power ever brought to the notice of man- 
kind. It shows that every particle of matter has life 
— has a soul that can hear, see and feel, and can 
store away in memory for thousands of years, and the 
psychometrist is told that history when he takes the 
pebble. It is found that dead matter, so called, is 
full of thoughts, full of life, full of every faculty of 
man, except his reason and executive power, and it 
may be that these are in every particle of matter, but 
so small in force as to be imperceptible by man. The 
proof that it has these faculties, is that man and 
beasts have them, derived from the spirit of matter. 
Another proof, is the orderly manner in which the 
sun, moon and planets are made and kept in their 
places. There seems to be the same orderly will- 
power, and reasoning power, that the best of human 
beings possess, to adopt this law of order and exact 
time for the movements of these great bodies in space. 
We find that in human alt'airs, ignorance makes great 
disorder among the people, even if presided over by 
the most intelligent people. So the intelligence of a 
God might not be able to keep in order the worlds in 
space, unless they possessed the highest intelhgence. 
When we find that apparently dead matter has all 
the five senses of man, we do not have to stretch our 
imagination much, to conclude tliat the planets and 
heavenly bodies have more wisdom than was ever 
given to man, and more than man has the capacity 
to acquire. 

This statement is made because large bodies 
seem to possess more power mentally and in every 
other way than small ones, and the inference is, that 
it takes all matter and spirit to have all knowledge 



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and all the power and wisdom required to make a 
harmonious whole out of all nature and spirit and 
their products. 

This soul reading is of the greatest value in the 
practice of medicine and in society. It prepares 
people to know at sight and touch, the character of 
persons ; their diseases and the remedies, morally, 
socially and physically, that are required for them. 
In connection with Spiritualism, it is the great power 
to clear the world of cheats and frauds. 



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Chapter VI. 
MENTAL SCIENCES AND INVENTIONS. 

Mathematics is a purely mental science, and 
stands alone as an exact science ; by it man measures 
all things in heaven and earth. It is wholly made 
by mental calculations, and has no assistance, no 
support ; only man's mental action. There is a law 
of nature that man cannot control, but he can esti- 
mate the power and force of that law. There is not 
a known science that shows so distinctly the power 
and place of man, and the exact movements and 
unvarying force of nature's laws, as mathematics. 
If gravitation varied in power, Fairbank's scales 
could never have been made. If the movements of 
the heavenly bodies and the earth were not on exact 
time, clocks could not be relied upon and the science 
of astronomy could not have been made. But math- 
ematical calculations demonstrated that these forces 
were always the same, and the movements on exact 
time. 

Now, is there in nature, the basis for a code of 
moral and just laws, that are as exact as those that 
make the laws of mathematics possible ? And can 
man find that basis as clearly as that science ? Are 
the rights of persons to life, liberty, property and the 
pursuit of happiness as clearly stated, and as well 
understood, as the rules of mathematics ? No. Why 
not ? The same God made the basis for both of 
these principles, and why has not man made as much 
progress in one as the other V Simply because man 
has not been allowed the same liberty to investigate 
and make his experiments and observations to deter- 
mine what is moral and just, as he has to make math- 
ematical calculations. If you go back five hundred 
years among Christians, you will find they knew as 
much of one as the other. Since that time, the 
mathematicians have been allowed to study their 
science. But the moral scientists have not been 



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allowed to live in peace only in the last few years, 
and never to make their experiments as they must do, 
to perfect their science. The demand now is, that 
they shall have the right, but it may be a long time 
before they will get it. It must be remembere'd that 
both these are mental sciences, and show the exact 
places where God's laws end, and man's laws begin 
and end. 

LANGUAGES. 

A person would hardly think that all the known 
languages of the people of earth have but about 50 
sounds, and all those sounds can be distinctly uttered 
and represented in an alphabet, and yet such is the 
fact ; showing that there is a law of sound that 
people can not violate in making their words to rep- 
resent things. This shows that there is a basic law 
of language that people can not get by. This does 
not show that a word is God. But it does prove that 
man is governed by a God power in making words ; 
yet, the words of all languages are made by man. 
The law -God of nature made the basis for these 
languages ; there his work ended, and man made all 
the rest. It has taken people thousands of years to 
make these discoveries, with no legal preventatives. 
Now, give thinking people a chance to search in 
nature the basic principles for making moral and 
just law, and see if they will not make the discov- 
eries, and adopt the princij)les and rules that will 
give them intelligence and harmony. This basic 
law ''is the divinity that shapes our ends," and all 
people want, is a chance to find out how he shapes 
them and they will find it, morally and socially, as 
well as they have in languages, when they get their 
right by law and public opinion. 

INVENTIONS. 

Where do inventors look for the law to discover 
how to make useful inventions ? The great distin- 
guishing difference between this age and past ages, are 
the labor-saving inventions, Christianity remains 



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the same. They still read, ''servants obey your mas- 
ters;" "wives be obedient to your husbands." They still 
wish to enslave men and women ; there is no change 
in their talk and habits, when they can find people 
ignorant enough to listen to them. Then, where do 
these improvements come from ? From inlidels, who 
study nature's laws and wisely use the information 
they get. Their bible is the earth and nature's laws, 
not the book of words that priests tell them contains 
all knowledge and wisdom. The inventors of all ages 
have gone to the book of nature to get their knowl- 
edge and wisdom. We see the Mohammedans study- 
ing it in the Christian dark ages, when they invented 
algebra and made alphabets and numerals, which are 
used to-day. We see the Greeks studying it in their 
enlightened ages, when they made their great archi- 
tectural structures, and their unequaled works of 
sculpture and painting. We see it among the Komans 
in the highest state of their civilization, just as we 
see it now in the decadence of their religions. 
Wherever we see a progressive people, there is to be 
seen religion on a back seat. This must always occur 
as long as the people have a religion that condemns 
nature as a devil, and classes the earth, the flesh and 
the devil as one and all evil, because all progress is 
made by studying the earth, the flesh, and the good 
and evil of life in nature. We are now in the hey- 
day of progress and prosperity, inventions and dis- 
coveries are covering the land with blessings; the 
ancient divine books are being laid aside for the book 
of nature, and its revelations are wonderful to all 
people, and notwithstanding the bad religion and 
oppressive laws, that oppress the poor laborers of the 
land, yet the blessings are more wide -spread among 
all people than any religion ever permitted, or ever 
will be, unless it is made true to nature and 
nature's God, as manifested by the laws of nature. 
Until that time we shall have the torture and murder 
of such men as Servetus and Bruno, and the slanders 
and falsehoods of such men as Paine and Ingersoll. 
The very best of men and women will be slandered, 
tortured and murdered by Christians, because they 
are good, true and useful. It is not likely that they 




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would hang a Mary Dyer in Boston now, as they did 
more than two hundred years ago, because she would 
speak her mind ; but they might in Delaware, and 
states south of it, as they have threatened Ingersoll. 
History gives but one character to all the sacrificial 
religionists, whether Pagan or Christian ; in one 
word, it is brutality. History gives but one character 
to scientists and inventors— they are reasoning 
humanitarians. 

People must choose to have the inventor and 
knowledge and free thought, or the priest and ignor- 
ance and despotism over the thinking people. The 
invention of the art of printing is of more value to 
mankind than all the priests of all the religions of 
the world. The inventor enslaves the elements of 
nature, and makes them do the work imposed upon 
man when ignorant. The priests enslave the people 
and keep them ignorant, to prevent them from using 
their mental powers to make nature's laws do the 
work for mankind. Printing is the work of the 
Devil. Just think of it reader — this, the greatest 
blessing ever given to man, is a Devil, so pronounced 
to-day by priests to ignorant people. The invention 
of the telescope, by which we survey the heavens, is 
of more value to mankind than all the priests in the 
world, and the same may be said of the microscope. 
It is no great stretch of the imagination to conclude 
that in due time people will see the spirits with the 
natural eye and hear them with the natural ear. 
Such a wonder is foreshadowed by the discovery of the 

ECHO FASTENER. 

' There is one curious discovery made by Edison, 
the inventor. It proves that matter will retain a 
sound. Psychometrists have discovered it, by taking 
pieces of rocks and other articles. This discovery is 
different. A person makes a speech in presence of 
his phonophone, and it is recorded in sound and can 
be repeated like an echo, at any time, by running the 
paper containing it through the instrument. This is 
made plain to common ears. In this way, the 
speeches of to-day can be repeated in time to come, 



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when the people wish to hear the voices of the depart- 
ed, as near the original as an echo is to the voice that 
makes it. 

Since Spiritualism has become a factor in human 
affairs, it has been discovered that, although the laws 
of nature and spirit are unchangeable, what are 
called cursed by priests and their ignorant followers, 
are turned into blessings by the intelligent inventor 
and his spirit friends. They make the lightning 
work for us. They make dead matter, so-called, give 
us information. The voice of a speaker, in a low 
tone, is plainly heard many miles away. By the 
inventors, news is conveyed around the world in a 
few minutes. Any one of these inventions is of 
more value to mankind, in saving them hardships 
and pain, than all the priests that ever lived. Which 
will you have : Ignorance, misery, and the priests, or 
intelligence and comfort, with the inventor V 

EEASON. 

Keason is the highest gift that the God of nature 
ever gave to man. It is the best gift man can think 
of. It is by this gift alone that there ever can be 
peace on earth among the people. This is well known 
among all thinking people, yet it never has been the 
basis of any great religion. The priests have always 
substituted inspiration and belief or love in the 
heart, instead of reason and facts in the head. They 
always speak to the heart when they wish to cause a 
revival interest among the people, to induce them to 
join their church and pay the preacher. If these 
ministers and priests would spend half as much time 
in reasoning from facts, as they do in persuading 
people to be governed by their hearts, they would not 
be the worst people in the world, as they now are. 
The head is put on top, to be in the best position to 
take charge of the body, and be the best guide and 
controlling power in the human system. The heart 
is ])ut under it to give us warnings ; they may be true 
or false alarms. The preachers are constantly dwell- 
ing on these alarms, and nine out of ten of them are 
false warnings, or false alarms. They have thrown 
away all the God-given head work, mind work, and 
reasoning work, to employ all their powers in prepar- 



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in^ warnings and alarms, until they have made des- 
pair to rankle in the heart of the victim ; then they 
calm the same by hope, and the insane are left in 
their hopeless condition, to wander in body and mind 
under the influence of their hearts, until their heads 
are given control — if they ever become sane. There 
is no other class of people on earth that are constant- 
ly advising persons to beware of reason, and be 
guided by warnings, only preachers and priests, and 
there is no other class of people so wrong, so wicked. 
They stand at the gateway of all knowledge, with 
their flaming, two-edged sword, ready to slay every 
person who tries to enter there. Oh, ye people ! look 
at the great heaps of slain that lay before the gates 
of all the temples of knowledge. What were they 
murdered for ? Simply because they sought knowl- 
edge, that they might be guided by the headlights of 
reason and wisdom, and establish the merciful laws 
of justice and truth, with a religion of wisdom and 
government of just equality. Their only crimes 
were, that they were virtuous and just. Civilization 
is made by reasoners, barbarism by priests. Which 
will you have, teachers or preachers V 



Chapter VII. 
MATERIAL SCIENCES, MEDICINE ANJ) LAW. 

ASTRONOMY. 

Astronomy is the science of the skies ; a science 
that proves all things, and holds fast to that which is 
good and true. The professors of this science look at 
the sun, moon and stars, to learn what they are ; how 
they are held in their place, and what relation they 
have to the earth. Could a more innocent employ- 
ment be thought of? Why did the lord of heaven 
and earth set those brilliants in the heavens, if 
it would be wicked to look at them and calculate their 
chavacter, uses, distances, and their movements V 
Yet, because men did this, they were put down as the 
most wicked sinners on the face of the earth, and 
tortured and burnt to death by the Christian priests, 
who proclaimed themselves the most intelligent, best 
and most holy persons in the world. Here were 
scientists, that had done nothing but obey the best of 
commands, who were tortured and murdered for it by 
the persons who published the command. 

What could be the object of men in proclaiming 
such a duty for people to do, and then murdering 
them for doing it? The only just inference to be 
drawn is, that these priests consulted together, to 
proclaim the best of doctrines, and if people literiUly 
and fully obeyed them, and they could not stop the in 
by other means, they must murder them. There was 
no other way to save the Christian priesthood and the 
bible. They said in their hearts, " we know there are 
more falsehoods than truths in our bible, but it mast 
be sustained as God's truth." Some of the priests of 
that time knew that the past priesthoods had been 
founded on falsehoods, and they could not see the 
value of priests to a people who knew the truth ; a 
priesthood was only supported by the ignorant, the 



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superstitious, and those whose intent it was to keep 
people ignorant and superstitious. 

Intelligent people want teachers to give them 
instruction, not preachers to deal out ancient false 
ideas ahout God and the world and the heavens, and 
the spirits of heaven and earth ; and the most intelli- 
gent priests knew their bible conveyed false ideas on 
every subject, and some of them would suffer tortures 
rather than proclaim falsehoods as truth. This is the 
reason that the priests are the worst of learned 
people in the world, because no intelligent good 
persons that are not forced to get their living by 
proclaiming these doctrines, will do it. But the 
wicked make the most genial tools for priest -craft to 
use to deceive the people, and make them murder 
astronomers and other searchers after truth and jus- 
tice, to guide all the people of the earth. 

GEOLOGY. 

Geology is a science that teaches people how the 
earth was formed and prepared for man. It proves 
that it took millions of years in preparing, and was 
so unexpected, that it struck the priesthood with a 
deadly thud. They had killed so many thousands of 
peoj)le to prove that God made it in six days, and now 
to have people open the book of the earth, made by 
another God, and that these murders proved them 
revengeful supporters of lies, and they had very little 
chance to kill people for proving these lies on them. 
This was too much for them. We may say this was 
the first time the Christian priesthood was defeated 
in killing their enemies, for all are their enemies who 
seek knowledge outside their bible and its priests. 
Then to have it done by their order ; to prove all 
things, and they not have any chance to murder 
them for it, as they had the chemists and astron- 
omers was unbearable. 

The priests had been defeated in many skirmishes 
before, but never in a regular mental battle. This 
time they were driven from the field, because the 
people had become sufficiently intelligent lo occupy 
all the ground of truth that the priests had pro- 



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claimed they stood upon. But when put to the test, 
it was proved they did not stand upon proved trutli, 
as they had declared, but on their claim of sell- 
righteousness, and the persons who disputed this 
were to be silenced by every cruelty the priests could 
inflict. This complete and overwhelming defeat of 
the Christian priesthood shows the exact value of 
Christianity. 

It proclaims some grand truths, and then some 
infamous falsehoods, and then approves of the 
persons who adopt the falsehoods, and punishes the 
persons who adopt and practice its truths, to the full 
extent that the laws and public opinion will permit. 
Christian Protestantism is as bad as Christianity in 
essence, but it cannot act as bad, because scientific 
Protestantism is mixed with it, and prevents tortures 
and slanders from being so cruel. 

CHEMISTRY. 

This is a science that shows the attraction and 
repulsion of atom to atom. By it, people learn that 
there is an invariable law that rules, and persons who 
wish to get a knowledge of this science, must study 
its laws, and not rely upon special providences in 
conducting their experiments. Chemistry takes into 
consideration the movements of the ultimate invisible 
atoms of matter, and the power that moves them, 
and finds there is an intelligent principle attached to 
every particle of matter that directs it where to go and 
where to stay, and when to move and when to be 
stationery. It finds that every particle of this matter 
has the wisdom of a God, but they do not find a few 
particles of this matter, combined with spirit that are 
made into a personal God. They find a designing 
law, but not a designing God back of that law. 
They find that a certain kind of matter and spirit 
makes a mental brain power, that is superior to any 
on earth, except the power that made the brain, and 
that power they find in every atom of matter. 

The crystalization of various substances shows 
the beauty and intelligence of dead matter, so called. 
Each substance has sufficient knowledge to always 



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assume the same shape'. Common salt has one 
shape, alum another, and so on ; and if chemistry 
proves anything of a God power, it is, that it exists 
in all spirit and matter that is in all space, and never 
talks, but works silently by laws. It seems there is a 
life to the crystal that gives it shape and size, the 
same to man, animals and vegetables. 



BOTANY 

teaches how exact nature's laws are, as in the growth 
of the different kinds of vegetation, the different 
classes and orders, are known readily, and yet none 
are exactly alike of the same order. The laws that 
govern their growth and decay are fixed so that by 
close observation one species can be distinguished 
from another. But to describe these species that are 
different, yet so near alike, that a language of botany 
is required, with exact terms,, to enable persons to 
distinguish one species from another. The study of 
botany is the best of any science to learn persons to 
be exact and correct in their language, in describing 
events, actions and things. It shows that English 
words and language will not answer to make a scien- 
tific language, but the dead languages must be used. 
Yet, its study is of great advantage to make people 
use the best of terms in their descriptions, in the 
English language. 



ZOOLOGY, OR THE SCIENCE OF ANIMAL LIFE, 

shows that animals are under the law of order and 
progress ; that the law of their production and 
growth is fixed for each species^ Wherever you find 
animal life, whether in worm, insect, fish, bird or 
other animal, all are found to exist by a law of 
nature, and bound by the laws of nature to have 
certain forms, and to live certain kinds of life, and 
to have a certain amount of freedom, and no more 
freedom than their physical force gives them, or their 
spiritual and physical forces combined give them. 



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Wherever man looks in life or death, there is a 
law of nature and spirit that rules, and whoever 
thinks there is a miracle God, that can rule this law 
God, has no proof of his existence. Yet all priests 
of all religions base their creeds and sermons upon 
the assumed facts that a miracle God is at the helm 
of power and runs the world, and the universe of 
worlds and people. While the scientific religionists 
proves by all nature and spirit that there is no other 
power that ever did or ever can rule nature's laws 
while this natural power exists. 

THE MEDICAL PROFESSION, 

like Protestantism, is based partly on facts and partly 
on theoretical guesses. They are seeking to have 
special powers granted to them that they may have a 
legal monopoly of the pay given by the sick to the 
doctors. They know their practice is no more scien- 
tific than the priests' preaching. This makes them 
anxious, like the priests, to secure by law, favors 
which they have no claim for in justice. 

There is a law of diseases ; there is a law of the 
action of remedies on diseases, but the action in 
many cases is so illy understood, that much of the 
practice is guess work or quackery. 

THE LEGAL PROFESSION 

has grown up under Protestant rule, and is just like 
it—professedly true and just, while practically, it is 
false and absurd ; cruel beyond the conception of 
plain, fair people, but a vast improvement on the 
times when the priests were the lawyers, doctors, 
priests and executioners. When Protestantism ends in 
the age of science, these professions will stand 
according to their uses in establishing truth and 
justice in society. Keeping them at the front as the 
guide of the people until the age of science is estab- 
lished, and not allowing them to assume as great 
despotism as the priests had in their day of power, is 
the great work of this Protestant age. 



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All material sciences are based upon an un- 
changeable law of nature. Without this basis, these 
sciences could not be made, and as they are the 
surest guide mankind have discovered, to show the 
true character of the deity that rules the earth, and 
the true relation of man to the laws that are this 
deity, or that do his works and display his power and 
unchangeable order. 



Chapter VIII. 
PEACE OFFEKINGS. 

Shall we smoke the pipe of peace like the Indian, 
or declare the principles of peace and abide by them, 
like a civilized people? Shall we submit our minds 
to reason, as a peace offering, or to inspiration ? Are 
the offerings of beasts, birds, or man, or their blood, 
as good to make peace on earth among people, as to 
study to be just, and to establish the laws of justice ? 
Is the belief in Christ a better peace offering than a 
belief in virtue and goodness? Is the belief in Gau- 
tama, Confucius, Mohammed, or in all the gods and 
goddesses, and all prophets and prophetesses of 
ancient4 and modern times, Jewish and Christian, 
taken singly or collectively, as good a peace offering 
as the rules of simple justice ? What is the best 
peace offering ? Tell us, oh ye pious, oh ye learned, 
oh ye wise, oh ye of the most profound knowledge ! 
Do the nine demands of liberalism contain this 
precious jewel ? Do the twenty- two articles of the 
Knights of Labor hold it ? Is it contained in the 
articles proposed in this book ? Can we pick it out of 
the communications of spirits, ancient or modern ? 
Let us consult our spirit friends about it, and reason 
together, and search the heavens and earth to find it. 
It is possible it may be found in knowledge and wis- 
dom. It is certainly safe to look for it there, and 
to set all people to getting knowledge and using it 
wisely. We know, the more ignorant a people, the 
more they are given to quarreling and war, and where 
all the people are the best informed there is the most 
peace. 

But the full benefit of the peace that is contained 
in knowledge has not had a chance to show itself, 
because in all countries it has been overshadowed by 
a militant church and state. When a person is 



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engaged in getting information, the mind is being 
trained to peaceful pursuits, yet all knowledge is not 
calculated for a peaceful offering. Only special parts 
of it are fitted to be most beneficial in that line; 
such as the laws of life ; the laws of society ; the law-s 
of association ; the laws of peace, truth and justice. 

Some reformers are opposed to making laws to 
suppress individual vice, and promote individual 
virtues ; that such laws are opposed to individual 
liberty, which is of vastly more importance to secure, 
than anything that man can do by law. Eight here 
is a difference of opinion about where personal 
liberty ends and society security begins. The object 
of law is to protect the innocent against the oppres- 
sion of the wicked, and to protect the weak from 
being oppressed by the strong. Eight here is wanted 
the peace offering that will unite the two parties w4io 
are seeking for justice to the weak and the strong, 
and to the innocent and the guilty, or those who 
would be guilty if not prevented by a just public 
opinion made into laAV, to be a better guide of that 
public opinion in suppressing vice and wrong, and 
promoting virtue and justice among the people. This 
is the special advantage of law. It not only instructs 
people to know the right from the wrong, but it 
guides them how to justly suppress wrong, and to 
take care of the w^rong doer. 

Some people say it is a vice and a crime to drink 
intoxicating drinks ; others say it is good, and gives 
health and happiness. Some persons say that chew- 
ing and smoking tobacco is one of the greatest vices; 
others say it gives them health and strength, and 
they know it is a great good. Some' persons say that 
eating pork is a great vice ; that it is concentrated 
scrofula and disease. Others say that it is the finest 
meat that can be set before them. Infidels say that 
reading the Christian's bible and attending their 
meetings is one of the greatest vices of the age, 
because their bible is a nest of falsehoods, and the 
preacher knows it, and yet he reads it as truth, and 
threatens them that hear him with the direst of woes 
if they do not believe it true, and promises them the 
greatest of happiness if they will believe these false- 



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hoods are truth. The Christians proclaim their bible 
and their meetings the greatest peace offerings ever 
presented to mankind. The Christians say the state- 
ments of infidels, that are proved true, are the great- 
est curses that ever visited the earth. The infidels 
say these statements are the greatest blessings and 
the best peace offerings ever presented to mankind. 
Christians and infidels say that spirit communi- 
cations are the greatest ot" humbugs and inculcate the 
most gross superstitions of the age. Spiritualists 
believe these communications are the greatest bless- 
ings now known as peace offerings to all people ; that 
by them and through tlieir influence, harmony will 
be established and war will be heard of no more 
among the people of the earth. 

Amongst all these conflicting opinions and in- 
terests, who can give the truth tha,t will disorganize 
the contestants that are combating each other and 
organize them by an agreement on a peaceful basis ; 
to adopt trial laws, where they can not agree upon 
what are just ones, or do not know how to frame laws 
that will be just, and make trial organizations to 
learn, as well as we can, how we should associate to 
live the best lives and do the most good V Let it be 
distinctly understood that the legislatures of all the 
states and territories and the congress of the United 
States of America be petitioned to sanction these 
trial laws and associations, when they are based upon 
the equal rights of their men and women adult 
citizens, and upon the moral principles that naturally 
attach to such citizen rights. 

Suppose these petitions are not granted, what 
then is to be done? Make the associations and live 
the most virtuous lives that can be under pi-esent 
laws, and if there is a Servetus or a Mary Dyer that 
oversteps the laws so much that they are ordered 
burnt or hung, to satisfy present laws and Christian 
modes of thought and action, there Avill be notiiing 
new for Christians about it, and the hope is that it 
will be the last of their inhumanity to man. Let us 
walk steadily forward in the path of progress, until 
there is a religion established that allows the good to 



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livo jiiui miiko their exporimonts, and make a state 
that agreos with it. 

The greatest peace ott'ering ever presented to the 
nations of the world, is the science of free spee«»h, in 
the shape of parliamentary hiws, presented hj^ the 
great sturdy men of England, in a line of nohle men 
that continued for ages and centuries. They held to 
the equal rights, to free speech in parliament. Now 
as England and Englishmen have presented the 
hest in their age, it hecomes America and Americans 
to present the hest in this age. That is the science 
of free rights, in the shape of equal rights in making 
the laws, and equal rights hy the laws, after they are 
made. The declaration of independence proclaims 
the foundation of these principles, and it is the duty 
of the sturdy nohle men and women of America to 
offer this greatest peace offering the people have ever 
thought of and the world has ever seen, so people 
may Know how to make peace on earth and good will 
among men. 

The hest religious peace offering to he made, that 
I can present to the reader, is, to see if there is any 
God power, that all agree is the best and most reliable, 
because it is the most powerful and controls all 
things, and one that there is no power in heaven or 
earth, that can ii\fiuence, or make deviate an iota from 
its laws and movements. All religious differences now 
are based on the different gods tliey worship or their 
different ways of managing the world, the ffesh and 
the devil. Can any one point any other power that 
is immutable but the power of nature, the laws of 
nature? If people will imitate this Crod in being 
peaceful, in order, on times, under just law, as astro- 
nomy proves the God of nature to be, and be harmo- 
nious under the laws of attraction and repulsion as 
chemistry proves the God of matter to be, and allow 
the regular order of progression to go on as geology 
proves the God of nature has done, there will he peace 
on earth, among the people, and rejoicing that they 
have found a (rod that always makes peace by his 
laws and works in all time and space where man' has 
no power to act. He has given man power to make 
and worship false gods and bring on strife and war. 



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and that is what thoy have dono, instead of adopting 
the true God and just hiws and studying the acts of 
peace. 

Ah one of the greatest peace offerings that the 
best of people can present, is the plan of 
the scientists to worship truth instead of 
the God of truth. They are always seeking 
for truth in all the works of nature, they 
worsliip natures laws instead of the God of nature's 
laws, because they know sornetliing of these laws cer- 
tainly, and nothiri!^ certain of any God who has any 
manat^ement of them ; they worship justice instead 
of the God of justice, and this makes them call for 
the laws of justice to establish a f^overnment on just 
principles, they worship the laws of right and 
righteousness, instead of the God of right, because 
their law God has given them power to learn right 
from wrong, and not the power to consult with him 
by word, and learn what is right or wrong ; this is 
learned by experience and reason ; they worship the 
law of mercy instead of the God of mercy. 

The rjuestion may be properly asked why they 
worship these laws and principles and not the God 
that stands for them. The reason is : laws and prin- 
ciples never give orders for unjust punishments, 
while the God that people cause to stand for the 
laws, does order the most cruel and unjust punish- 
ments. Such as he who breaks the iSabbath day shall 
not live. For hundreds of years scientists have been 
making these peace offerings to Christians, and they 
at first murdered them for it, then they reviled them, 
now they acknowledge the truth and justice of their 
course but reject it as a peace offering, while the 
Spiritualists accept it as the most wise and lovely, 
just and truthful peace offering ever ^^'^esented to 
mankind for their guide to peace and harmony. 



Chapteb IX. 
CONCLUSIONS. 



False ai-e the men of high degree, 
The baser sort are vanity, 
Weighed in a balance, bo'th appear, 
Li^ht as a puff of empty air," 



This was the beginning of one of the sacred 
songs of the sturdy heroes of the revolution, when 
they beat from our shores George III., men of 
high degree and the baser sort. AU their sacred songs 
in that day w^ere like fuges and bid defiance to ene- 
mies ; this should be the position of reformers of this 
age. If men have one particle of unjust power by law, 
you may expect they will abuse all the people, that 
the power gives them a chance to subject to abuse. 
This any one can see, if they will look at the history 
of the slave masters, ruling over the slaves, and the 
people of this country. The same kind of histors^ is 
made by the republican party after ten or fifteen years 
of power. They made a financial crash that is a dis- 
grace to the men in power, and would be a disgrace 
to any financiers ; gave the ballot to the ignorant 
negroes and refused it to their inteUigent mothers 
and sisters at the same time, acknowledging their 
claim was just and they should not long be subject to 
the negroes. But the longer they w^ere in power the 
more abusive they became of women and wages work- 
ing people. 

When we look over the demands and platforms 
of the reform parties, they all agree in asking for 
their just rights, nothing more and nothing less will 
be accepted. The men in power to-day, are as false 
to their professions, as w^ere the tools of George III. 
in his day. • The same rigthts are demanded and 
none oppose their being granted but ignorant stupids 
and knaves, just the same now as it "svas in the revo- 
lutionary war. The object to be attained, is not to 



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have men with a high degree of power nor a baser 
sort for them to rest their claims on. 

Let it be distinctly understood that there never 
has been a great general of an army, since the fabu- 
lous Cincinnatus, that gave equal rights to his 
soldiers and citizens after he had cleared their 
country of its public enemies. He has always loaded 
favors upon favorites and made the people work and 
foot the bills. Our soldiers homes are an illustration 
of this kind of care for faithful crippled men ; they are 
under despotic military law and can not speak to an 
officer of their grievances without danger of being 
locked up for it, and treated like a criminal. In view 
of the treatment of great generals, to their common 
soldiers, who obeyed their orders and achieved for 
them the greatest honors the world can give, what 
other conclusion can be reached but that the generals 
hate their faithful soldiers in peace, the same as 
slave-holders hate their slaves when they are freed, 
and the same as tyrannical husbands, fathers and 
brothers, hate women when they have equal rights 
with men. Despots, in all times, have one mark in 
all the world : They hate bitterly, people who are 
striving for their just rights. 

What is the matter with the great and little 
people ? with the knowing among the ignorant V Are 
they totally depraved as said by Christian priests, or 
only depraved by their ignorance or surroundings ? 
The proof seems to be that ignorance is the cause — 
knowledge the cure, as the more a people of a state or 
nation become educated, the less the depravity of the 
n;reat and small, because the great middle class, whose 
interest is to have justice done, cause it to be done 
nearer than in other states. The greater the ignor- 
ance among the people, the better is the chance for 
the wicked to show their depravity, and they do it. 

As education increases depravity ceases, and 
the probability is that it will not exist when the 
people become well informed. The religion and 
governments of to-day are founded on intense love 
and intense hate, and rewards and punishments are 
meted out accordingly. All reformers of every party 
ask for rights. In this they all agree, and they "should 



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have them. Then they would moderate their love 
and hate, so that there would not be the least sign ot 
depravitv to be found about them. The law that is 
bad, is worse than any bad act made under it, because 
it stands for all the bad acts caused by it. 

There is no excuse for the persons who will not 
grant these rights, except they believe m the total 
depravity of man, angels and their God. it the suc- 
cessful general believed in a just God, why is not his 
first act, after his soldiers have conquered the enemy, 
to eive his soldiers their just and equal rights and 
extend such rights to their mothers and daughters 
and all faithful citizen ? Why do not great statesmen 
and priests extend these rights to -all citizens 
especially when they ask for them, petition for them ? 
Simply because their God is so depraved that he has 
not made in nature or spirit a law that enables man 
to make laws that will be just and equal to all rnan- 
kind. But these depraved, cursed soldiers, sailors, 
citizens and women can give to the generals, states- 
men and priests, just rights, riches and honors and 
all the blessings of heaven and earth ; and now when 
the common people are asking these rulers, it they 
can not afford to give them a fair and equal share ot 
these rights, they have nothing but shotguns, threats 
and abuse to give them. These abuses have induced 
the common people and common soldiers to unite to 
demand their rights. They believe ma God who is 
as friendly to the common people as to those ot high 
decree, that there are fixed and immutable laws ot 
nature and spirit, that, if adhered to, will guide per- 
sons to make laws that will give just and equal rights 
to all people who will adopt them m practice, io 
secure these rights I present the following principles 
and laws for the consideration of the people : 

1st. There are fixed and immutable laws of na- 
ture that are unchanged by time or prayer, upon 
which man can base true and just moral laws to guide 
and govern mankind. 

2nd. We have communications from our spirit 
friends, by natural and spirit laws, informing us that 
they have in spirit spheres the same kind of spirit 



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laws to guide and govern them, that are true, just and 
moral to them. 

3d. To enable all people to learn what these im- 
mutable laws are, and man's duty under them, and to 
enable them to know where God's laws end and man's 
laws begin, and what man's laws sliall be, to be in 
harmony with these laws of deity, we adopt the 
following laws and principles to guide them in this 
work : 

1st. We adopt the science of free speech ; as in- 
terpreted by parliamentary law, as the guide of all 
people who engage in discussing the questions that 
arise about what is just and true. 

lind. We adopt the principles of the declaration 
of independence and parliamentary laws, that all 
adult citizens, male and female, shall have equal 
rights to life, liberty, property and the pursuit of 
happiness. 

When the people have adopted these two laws, as 
their constitutional guide in making laws to regulate 
families, associations, religions and governments and 
in all conditions of life, there will be a firm founda- 
tion for people to be just in all their transactions. 
The most important laws that occur to me that come 
under this head, are : 

1st. That wages- working peaple shall have fair 
living wages for their work. This pay to be de- 
termined by what it costs to live comfortably. 

'2nd. Great incomes to single individuals must 
be taxed, so that they cannot oppress the poor. A 
graduated income tax is considered the best. 

3d. Great landed estates must be taxed out of 
existence. 

It should be remembered that it was the persons 
who paid the working people only the poorest of food 
and clothing and house accommodations, and when 
they complained paid them in bloody stripes on their 
bare backs, and those who had great incomes and 
great landed estates, that declared a rebellion against 
the best government the world has over known, and 
these classes are always planning and trying all sorts 
of deceptions and frauds to establish unjust laws and 
institutions to make people ignorant and their willing 



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tools. This brings us to the most important subject 
that the people can take hold of now. 

4th. Eesolved that every state and territory of 
this Union shall tax thejDroperty of their states or ter- 
ritory to establish common schools, so that ail children 
of schoolage shall have a fair chance to get a com- 
mon school education. If they refuse or neglect to 
do it, they should be deprived of a representation in 
congress, and the states turned into territories ; and 
the United States should see to it that the people are 
taxed and the children educated, because it is well 
established that the ignorant cannot maintain a re- 
publican government, and those rulers should know 
that congress has as much right to turn men and 
states out, as they have to go out, as they did years 
ago. 

Scientists, thinkers. Spiritualists and reformers 
are these nine propositions and principles true and 
just ? Will they make the best foundation that man 
can conceive at this time, to establish the true religion 
and just associations and governments upon ? If they 
are not, let us have the true ones, and then proceed 
to make special laws that are required to guide 
people in their special duties in life. Or if more 
general laws are required, before we can safely pro- 
ceed to make special laws and rules, let us have them. 
It is the duty of governments to make special laws 
to protect individuals and associations in their rights, 
and it is the duty of every individual and association 
to obey all the just laws that governments enact for 
their guide, but never to obey an unjust law, only 
under protest, where the law is flagrantly unjust. 
The just law should be proclaimed with sufficient 
force to draw public attention to it. It is often said 
that we have too many laws. This may be true of 
bad laws, but not of" good ones. Experience has 
proved that it requires between 300 and 400 laws to 
secure free speech in legislative bodies, all good and 
needed ; a less number would not secure free speech. 
To secure the same freedom of rights, in all the 
affairs of life, how many laws it will take is not 
known, but all the laws should be enacted that are 
required. Whenever they want a law to secure the 



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rights of members in If^gislative bodies, they make it. 
Tlie same rule must be adopted by the people to 
establish the rule of justice as the law of the land. 

Associations must have their special laws to 
guide them in their formation, and in paying the 
working partners in them. When such associations 
are religious, special laws will be required to enable 
them to have their worship. When they adopt the 
scientific religion, all good work is good worship, and 
besides this, they will assemble m circles to get coun- 
sel from the spirits. It will require gifts to the 
amount of about Jt55(),(H)0 to lay the proper foundation 
for a community of from ten to twenty families, that 
is, an association of from 50 to 100 persons. 

If the Christians wish to raise that amount to 
build them a house and buy the grounds, they get it 
in a few days in this city ; but all the free religion- 
ists united, in this union, will not be able to get such 
an amount in a year, to form an association to make 
experiments for a scientific free religious association, 
unless some one person will give the whole amount. 
Such is the result of experience. The church mili- 
tant, or lighting church, is popular now, but the 
religion of science, of truth, justice and peace, has 
very little financial influence at this time. 

The capital of this government should be re- 
moved to some point near the banks of the upper 
Mississippi, in a healthy location, among the intel- 
ligent, educated people of that section, to give con- 
gress a fair field to make a just government. It is 
clearly shown that the only time when the southern 
states made a marked improvement in education, was 
when they were being whipped by the northern people 
and the negroes, and were under negro and carpet- 
bag rule. We want the capital in a section of the 
country where the people have not been debased by 
despotic laws and rulers. There is no hope that Spirit- 
Tialism or the religion of science can prevail, only in 
enlightened countries, and we should make our iiead 
centres amidst such a people in North America, and 
invite representatives from all sections of the conti- 
nent to come and counsel with us and assist us hi 
finding out all the principles of righteousness, and 



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adopting them to be the guide of all people, and if 
Christians kill the people for telling the truth, as they 
have in the past, they only prove that now; as for- 
merly, they kill the truest and best people in the 
world to save the worst. 

The great object in presenting this little work to 
the public, is to get people to reasoning together upon 
the foundation principles that make just associations 
and governments and the true religion, and to adopt 
them as their guide. I wish them to know that 
liberty consists of order and obedience to just laws, 
and slavery consists of disorder and obedience to 
unjust laws, and when I see people assembling 
together, to hear all kinds of laws, principles and 
propositions for the purpose of selecting the best to 
be their guide in establishing justice and making 
peace among the people, I shall be satisfied that my 
efforts have not been lost to the world, and it will be 
an abundant reward for the publication of this work. 



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Brown, Jolin b«' qIq R7 

Bible 26-9-49-67 

Buddhists ^« 

Burned %^ 

Brooks, P. S ---^2 

Barharism -^^-^X 

Butler, B. F ^9 

Burns %' 

Bruno 2^ 

Botany '" 



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Children 16-17-56 

Clark, Mrs -_-17 

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Confucius - - - ;f » 

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Congress 35-37 

Civilization 35-54-66 

Cultivators 37 

Crown 37 

Chaplains 38 

Clay 39 

Caesar 39 

Cromwell 39 

Currency 40 

C riminals 40 

Capitol 40 

Car Drivers 33 

Crooks ---46 

Chance 47 

Christ 49-57 

Conventions 50-53 

Charity. 53 

Constantine 57 

Conclusion 78 

Cincinnatus 79 

Christians 8 J 

Delaware 64 

Dyer, Mary 64*75 

Devil 49 57-63-64 

Dreams -9 

Divorces 17 

Despotic 18 

Drunk 22 

Dayton 38 

Demands 41-44 

Davis, A. J 57 

Declaration 81 

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Earth 7 

Englishman 12-13-37-76 



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Europe 27 

Equity "25 

Equal Rights 30 

Education 39 

Elections 39 

Ednioads, Judge 46 

Echo Fastener 64 

Edison 64 



Free Speech 11-18-76-81 

Free Thinkers 10 

Falsehoods 10-23 

French 13 

Faith 22 

Father of Waters 40 

Fenton 39 

Frauds 49 

Five Senses 59 

Fairhank's Scales 61 

Fuges 78 

Financial 78 

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Generals 79 

God 4-22-63-76 

God's Mother 7 

Governments 6-11-12-30-34-15 

Geologists 9-68 

Genesis 9 

Germans 13 

Greeks 28-33 

Grant 39 

Ghost 48-7 

Gifts 54 

George III 78 



Heart 65 

Heavens 9 

Humanitarian lo 

Hate 15-21-79 

Hell 10-33 

Hirelings 21 

Hushands 14-21-56-63 

Heaven 20 

Harmonial 21 

Hours 33-15 

Homes .' 37-55 

Holidays 59 

Hare, G. M 38 

Hare, Prof , 46 

Head 65 



Introduction 4 

Inspiration 8 

Intellect 8 

Intuition 9 

Italians 13 

Ignorance 35 

Intelligence 36 

Insane 40-58 

Ingersoll 44-63-64 



Inventions 56- 61-62-63-65 

Indian 73 

Intoxicating 74 

Infidel 75 

Independence 76 

Immiitable Law 80-81 

Incomes 81 

Intelligent People 84 



Judgment 8 

Jews 28-73 

Jefferson 33 

Jehovah 28 

Jupiter 28 

Jackson 39 

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Knowledge 8-23 

Kansas 33 



Land 20 

Love 21-23-80 

Liberty 39 

Lihhy.' 31 

Lincoln 39 

Lahor Party 41 

Liberal League 44 

Languages 62 

Lightning 65 

Law 67-71-74-80-83 

Laws of Nature - . _ 80 

Laws of Spirit 80 

Landed Estates 81 



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Mental Sciences 

Miracles 


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Ministers 


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Mohammedans 

M ediums 

Marriages 


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Mother 


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Mosheim 


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Money 


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Medicine 


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Material Sciences 


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Microscoi^e 


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Nature 


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Oshkosh 


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OrgiinizM t ion 56 

Obsessed •')« 

Personal Liberty 74 

Peace ( )rlV rings 7.'{ 

Pliib)Sopby 58 

Peter 57 

Printihg 64 

Priests ; 6-25-65-67 

Protestants 7 -'26 10 

Pray 7-8 

J'enanee 7 

Progressive 28-6:5-76 

F' res] (1 ent ;U-:58-39 

Pestilential 40 

Parliamentary lO-U-81 

I'enn ". 16 

Parlnershii) ...20 

Paine, Thomas 24-25-63 

Pagan 28 

Pulpit 4!) 

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I'heHonu'na 52 

'^hilanlliropic 53 

Psyehology 58 

Psychometrv 59 

People ■ 83 

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Religion 5-7-8-4-22-28 

Reason 8-29-58-65 

Revelat ion 9 

Revolution 25 

Rights 9-11-22-75 

Repudiate 11 

Rvissians 1 3-35 

Reformers - - .13-24.74-82 

Rusk, Gov 16-32 

Reinilsion 17-52 

Responsible 21 

Rome 26-28-33-57 

Reso Ived 35-50-82 

Republican 78 

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Spiritualism 4-28-38-45-48-50-55 

Science 4-22 

Sacritieial 7 

Snn 9 

Spanish 13 

Starvation 16 

Shakers 19 

Socialists 19 

Slave 21-31-63-79 

Spirits 20-46-49-75-82 



Stones 22 

Superstition 26-54-68 

Sweden borg 29 

Sumner.... 32-39 

Southern Stat«'s 33-34 

Soldiers 34-37-79 

Severance; J. II 38 

States 39 

Sargent , Ej)es 46 

siiaUespeare 57 

Soul Reading 60 

Servetiis 63-75 

Scientists 82 

Torture 7 

Truth 7-23-53 

Theological 22-58 

Trinity 26 

Thinkeis 82 

Teachei-s 34 

Territories .' 36 

Tiixes 36 

Telescope 64 

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Union 40-75 

Visions 9 

Voters 40 

Vetoes 33 

Villain 56 

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Worship 5-7-17-20 

Wisdom S-23-60 

Wonderful. 12 

Works 12.30-16 

Wives 14-16-21.56-63 

Wages 14-16-81 

Wisconsin 16 

Words 6-20 

Wine 22 

War 33-35 

Wealth 36 

Webster 39 

Womens' Rights 41-79 

Wallace 46 

Wrong ... 74 

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Zoology 70 

Zoellner .,.,,,., 46 



ERRATA. 



On page 13, second line from the bottom, insert 
•to make " before the words "a true religion." 

On page 33, fourth line from the top, read 
espouse" instead of "expose." 



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